Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impartially athletic, Robin switched to basketball with the season. When his mother would try to get him to do some work around the place, he would put her off: "Naw, Mom. I'm a ballplayer. You just wait till I get into the major leagues. Then I'll...
When Roberts tried out for the State baseball team, his hitting was too weak for an infielder, so he asked Coach John Kobs for a chance to pitch. "I liked his motion," says Kobs. "He threw it someplace around where the catcher held his glove, and that made sense."
An unspectacular success as a college pitcher, Roberts got his big break when the University of Michigan's baseball coach Ray Fisher took him to New England in the summer of 1946 to play in the old Northern League. Roberts balked often out of sheer awkwardness, fell down fielding...
Fisher did so well that by the end of his second season in New England, Roberts had excited the scouts of half a dozen big-league clubs. The St. Louis Browns offered him $225 a month to play Class B ball. A few days later the Phillies offered him $10...
"They Won't Tell Me Anything." Now, nine successful years away from those awkward summers in Vermont, Robin Roberts still turns for help to the man who polished him up for the Phillies. Last fall Roberts surprised his old coach by stopping off in Ann Arbor and asking permission...