Brian Michael Roberts (born October 9, 1977) is an American retired professional baseball second baseman. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Baltimore Orioles in 2001 and played for the team until 2013. He played his final season for the New York Yankees in 2014.
Early life, education and college-baseball career
Roberts was born in Durham, North Carolina, to parents Mike and Nancy Roberts. He lived in Chapel Hill. At the age of 5, Roberts underwent open heart surgery to repair an atrial septal defect.[ He graduated from Chapel Hill High School.[citation needed]
College-baseball career
Roberts enrolled at the University of North Carolina, where he played college baseball for the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of NCAA Division I. His father, Mike Roberts, was the head coach of the Tar Heels. No other Division I baseball program offered Roberts a scholarship.
During Roberts’ freshman year in 1997, he batted .427, with 102 hits, including 24 doubles, and 47 stolen bases. His batting average was the second highest in the ACC. He was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association’s (NCBWA) Second Team and the Collegiate Baseball Third Team. His sophomore year, he hit .353, with 13 home runs, 49 runs batted in (RBIs), 21 doubles, 63 stolen bases and was named to the NCBWA First Team, The Sporting News Second Team and the Collegiate Baseball Second Team.[citation needed] His 63 stolen bases were more than any player in college baseball that year. He became the fifth Tar Heel to be named ACC player of the year, and was a first team All-America.
Mike Roberts was fired after the 1998 season. After the firing, Brian opted to transfer to the University of South Carolina, to continue his college baseball career with the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team. Starting at shortstop, Roberts was named the best defensive college player by Baseball America. Playing in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), he batted .353, hit 12 home runs, and collected 36 RBI. He still owns the school and SEC record for stolen bases in a season with 67. He again was named an All-America and was a member of the All-SEC team.
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Roberts with the Baltimore Orioles
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| Second baseman | |||
| Born: October 9, 1977 Durham, North Carolina |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 14, 2001, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
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| July 28, 2014, for the New York Yankees | |||
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| Batting average | .276 | ||
| Home runs | 97 | ||
| Runs batted in | 542 | ||
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- Brian Roberts, the CEO of cable TV and Internet broadband provider Comcast, has sole voting power over approximately a third of the company’s stock.
- His father Ralph (d.2015) was one of the cofounders of Comcast, where Brian had his first internship at age 15.
- Roberts became president in 1990 at age 31; nine years later, his father Ralph transferred the bulk of his voting shares in the company to his son.
- Comcast, with 2 primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal, posted revenues of over $94 billion and a profit of $22 billion in 2018.
- Roberts was one of the tech CEOs invited to Congress to testify in September 2017 about net neutrality.
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