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  Dave Roberts (roberda03) - BR Bullpen
Dave Roberts was a professional baseball player for 22 years; of those who debuted in 1952, only Hank Aaron had a longer career.
Roberts again considered giving up life in the racist US, but was convinced to stay on and went to the Northern League, where he hit.269 with 15 homers, tied for 5th in the league.
Roberts edged out Willie Kirkland in RBI and homers, but was second in each thanks to the presence of Northern League legend Frank Gravino (who had beat out Aaron in a home run race in '52).
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Dave_Roberts_(roberda03)   (1601 words)

  
 Boston Red Sox - Roberts's rule: Use his speed - The Boston Globe
But Dave Roberts is certainly among the handful who can, and the Red Sox utility outfielder made his presence felt on the bases in Games 4 and 5.
Roberts is appreciative of the opportunity to have the green light, even when the team is down a run.
Roberts, who learned all of his tricks from Maury Wills while in the Dodgers' organization, still sees himself as an every-day player, and as a veteran free agent this offseason, hopes to find a starting job in '05.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/20/robertss_rule_use_his_speed   (777 words)

  
 Fantasy Baseball Profile - Dave Roberts
Leadoff batter Dave Roberts, who had a run-scoring triple and was thrown out trying to steal for the first time in 16 tries this season, left in the bottom of the fourth after straining his right hamstring and is listed as day to day.
Dave Roberts, who hadn't grounded into a double play in 398 at-bats this season, bounced into a double play in the sixth inning Tuesday, becoming the last major league regular to ground into a double play in 2002.
Roberts' average dipped to.216 on April 21, and he appeared to be slipping into a center-field platoon with Marquis Grissom, but he has been on a roll ever since, batting.500 (13 for 26) with a.618 on-base percentage in his last nine games, pushing his average to.312.
www.thomasgeorge.com /baseball/profile.cfm?playerId=1546&allNews=1   (2648 words)

  
 Dave Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dave Roberts, born David Ray Roberts (May 31, 1972 in Okinawa, Japan), is a Major League Baseball center fielder for the San Francisco Giants.
Roberts attended Rancho Buena Vista High School in Vista, California, where he was a standout in football, basketball, and baseball.
Roberts is sometimes thought of, along with Nippy Jones (See: 1957 World Series) as the most important postseason player ever with no career postseason hits.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Roberts   (690 words)

  
 Dave Roberts : USAToday.com - Dave Roberts Biography from USAToday.com
Dave Roberts has agreed to terms with the Giants on a three-year contract worth $18 million, sources told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Dave Roberts has reportedly picked the Giants over the Brewers and is set to agree to terms on a three-year deal.
Roberts has played well when healthy the last couple of years, but he's an injury-prone platoon player who is going to turn 35 in May. On a three-year deal, he just isn't a very good gamble.
fantasybaseball.usatoday.com /content/player.asp?sport=MLB&id=2871   (413 words)

  
 RotoChamps.com : Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts left Saturday's game in the sixth inning with an apparent right knee injury after a colliding into the left-field wall.
Dave Roberts was a late scratch Wednesday because of a sore groin.
Dave Roberts (hamstring) is ''very unlikely'' to be activated today when he is eligible to come off the DL.
www.rotochamps.com /mlb-5684-Dave-Roberts.html   (952 words)

  
 Boston Red Sox - A stolen moment of fame - The Boston Globe
But it is Roberts, the journeyman outfielder, whose star shines a bit brighter in the storytelling than the other two.
That would be 32-year-old Dave Roberts, acquired from the Dodgers to be a backup outfielder about 10 minutes before the July 31 trading deadline.
You see, Roberts wanted to be a regular, and Theo obliged by sending him to his hometown Padres, and that's where he is now.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/08/07/a_stolen_moment_of_fame   (1597 words)

  
 Giants Reach Agreement With Dave Roberts - MLB - WLWT.com | WLWT
Roberts appeared in a career-high 129 games for the San Diego Padres last season and batted a career-best.293, while leading the team with 49 stolen bases.
The 34-year-old Roberts, who also set career highs last season in hits (146), runs scored (80) and on-base percentage (.360), was offered arbitration by San Diego on Friday, ensuring that the Padres will get two compensatory picks for him in June 2007.
Roberts reached iconic levels in Boston for his ninth-inning steal in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, which led to the game-tying run against the Yankees and allowed the Red Sox to begin the greatest comeback in baseball postseason history.
www.wlwt.com /mlb/10447771/detail.html   (369 words)

  
 Dave Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With the signing of Dave Roberts the club went for a player-manager with vast knowledge of non-league football.
Dave was a mid-field player, who has junior had played for Liverpool.
Dave Roberts is best remembered within the club for taking Morecambe FC to Wembley in 1974 and winning the FA Trophy, beating Dartford 2-1.
www.morecambefc-supporters.org.uk /daveroberts.htm   (86 words)

  
 Personal Homepage - Dave "Coach" Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Professor Roberts taught for ten years at the University of Wyoming, where in 1976 he won an Amoco Outstanding Teacher award, the first non-tenure track faculty member ever chosen for the honor.
In 1982 Roberts moved to Iowa State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Rhetoric and Professional Communication area.
Prior to 1990, when he retired due to injuries and general loss of ability, Dr. Roberts was the player-manager for a city-league softball team made up of academic former jocks.
www.public.iastate.edu /~droberts   (209 words)

  
 Giants Win: Bochy ball = Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts ponders the smell of garlic fries in San Francisco's ballpark.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is reporting that Dave Roberts has decided to pass on signing with the Brewers and make a deal with the Giants.
What I like is that Roberts actually knows when to steal and can actually steal a base when the game is on the line, as anyone who remembers the 2004 playoffs will attest.
giantswin.blogspot.com /2006/11/bochy-ball-dave-roberts.html   (162 words)

  
 The Joy of Sox: Thank You, Dave Roberts!
Roberts went 0-for-4 with a walk and was caught stealing (by Piazza?!), but made three nice catches in the outfield, for which he was heavily booed.
Earlier this year, I read an article on Roberts and he said Sox fans were doing this in every city he went.
Forty years from now, Roberts will be 70+ years old -- and he will still have Sox fans (or their kids who have heard the stories and seen the DVDs) coming up to him and wanting to shake his hand (or touch his legs?).
joyofsox.blogspot.com /2005/07/thank-you-dave-roberts.html   (773 words)

  
 6abc.com
Dave is a native of Buffalo, New York and joined Channel 6, WPVI - TV, Philadelphia in 1978 as co-host of 6abc's new live morning talk show AM/Philadelphia.
Dave is active in many organizations including the Variety Club and the Knights of Columbus where he is a Fourth Degree Knight.
Dave was also honored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association for thirty-five years of service and was selected as Person of the Year.
abclocal.go.com /wpvi/story?section=bios&id=3301332   (462 words)

  
   Dave Roberts - 2004 World Champions - RedSoxDiehard.com  
Dave Roberts came to the Red Sox from the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 31 in a trading-deadline deal for minor leaguer Henri Stanley.
Roberts raced to third on the hit, then scored the tying run on Jason Varitek's sacrifice fly.
Again, Dave's baserunning had saved the season, and this time Ortiz won it with a walkoff hit in the fourteenth.
www.redsoxdiehard.com /worldseries/players/roberts.html   (480 words)

  
 Dave Roberts' Playoff Blog: Taking it easy
Dave, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with all of us.
Dave, it's been a lot of fun and an honor to watch you in San Diego these past few seasons.
Dave, I'll be there cheering for you tomorrow.
daveroberts.mlblogs.com /daveroberts/2006/10/taking_it_easy.html   (1398 words)

  
 Amazon.com: On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined: Books: David Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Roberts' book also took me into the world of higher education, revealing the politics and how many administrators are stuck in stupid mode.
David Roberts is truly one of the great climbing writers of his generation and this is a worthy tribute to his legacy.
Roberts has seen and experienced high risk, death and deprivation, has lost and gained much from his chosen battles, and has explored the consequences here in an amazingly conscious way.
www.amazon.com /Ridge-Between-Life-Death-Reexamined/dp/0743255186   (2413 words)

  
 Dave Roberts, a Broadcast Pioneer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dave Roberts was known to Buffalo television viewers as Dave Thomas (Thomas is Roberts' real middle name.) He was their weatherman at WKBW-TV and host of its "Rocketship 7" show, a Children's program.
Dave is a Speech and Dramatic Arts graduate of Syracuse University, with dual majors in English and Communications.
Dave Roberts has also been inducted into of "Hall of Fame." A year later, the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers (we used to be related but are not any longer) also inducted him into their "Hall of Fame."
www.broadcastpioneers.com /robertsbio.html   (572 words)

  
 ESPN.com - MLB - Dave Roberts - San Francisco Giants - Player Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Padres leadoff hitter Dave Roberts agreed Monday to a $2.25 million contract for 2006, and San Diego closed in on a $1 million deal for reliever Doug Brocail.
Dave Roberts, the San Diego Padres' new center fielder and leadoff hitter, probably will start the season on the 15-day disabled list because of a lingering groin injury.
Outfielder Dave Roberts, who helped get Boston to the World Series, was traded from the Red Sox to the San Diego Padres on Monday night for outfielder Jay Payton, infielder Ramon Vazquez, a minor leaguer and $2.65 million.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/players/content?statsId=6305   (221 words)

  
 Dave Roberts : Interview : uidesign.net
One of the founding fathers of the OOUI movement is Dave Roberts of IBM.
Dave Roberts has been involved in UI Design for more than 15 years.
Dave is now a leader in the IBM Ease of Use group which continues to pursue OOUI theory through the development of the Object Views Interaction Design (OVID) method.
www.uidesign.net /2000/interviews/roberts.html   (5353 words)

  
 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Boston Red Sox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
And while Roberts may be playing out of position a bit, shifted over to right field, where he has the least amount of outfield experience, he has brought with him one thing that never takes a day off.
Roberts similarly doesn't have any qualms about playing right field, even though he is more used to playing center and left.
Along those lines, Roberts reported for duty yesterday, ready and willing to let his legs and feet contribute to the Red Sox' cause as he moves from a pennant race on the West Coast to a playoff chase on the East Coast.
www.projo.com /redsox/content/projo_20040803_03roberts.95587.html   (1081 words)

  
 Dave Roberts, a Broadcast Pioneer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1956, David Boreanaz, (no, not Angel on the TV Series, but his dad, Dave Roberts - Boreanaz is his real last name) got a break in television at WBUF-TV, the NBC O & O in Buffalo, New York.
While we hope that Broadcast Pioneers member Dave Robert's check is now at least a little larger, do keep in mind that it was Channel 17, an UHF station.
Dave Roberts was our Person of the Year in 2000 and has been inducted into our Hall of Fame.
www.broadcastpioneers.com /daveearly.html   (223 words)

  
 Eulogy for Dave Roberts by Bobby Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dave Roberts was the leader to a group - virtually all whom are here today - that play golf every Saturday morning at 8:30 A.M. at Deerwood Club.
To all of us who knew him, Dave Roberts was an uncommon man. He didn't take many vacations because he didn't really need anything outside his family, his Austin co-workers and his golf friends.
Dave and Sally make friends for life as evidenced by the Behans, the Daytons and the Johnsons from their Trophy Club days some 15 years ago, as well as the Westons, Jensens, the Dunns, the Nowaks, the Gayoks and so many others here at Deerwood.
www.golfersagainstcancer.org /page.php/daverobertseulogy   (1134 words)

  
 Dave Roberts News
Dave Roberts news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
The Giants could be ready to announce the signing of speedy center fielder Dave Roberts on Monday, with infielder Rich Aurilia not too far behind.
The Dodgers are close to signing free-agent center fielder Juan Pierre, possibly paving the way for free-agent outfielder Dave Roberts to sign with the Giants, Brewers or Rangers, FOXSports.com has learned.
www.topix.net /baseball-players/dave-roberts   (681 words)

  
 Dave Roberts (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dave worked with Philip McMann and the Leadfoot Theatre, which led to voice-over roles for local radio spots and clients such as New York Sports Clubs, Playbill.com, Macklowe Properties and KBC Media.
After signing with a talent agency, Dave was cast as a recurring voice-over on the Japanimation hit The Elan.
Dave's most recent project with Gil is the reality show The Ultimate, Ultimate Challenge.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Roberts_(actor)   (325 words)

  
 Dave Roberts MLB Baseball at CBS SportsLine.com
Dave Roberts agreed to a three-year contract with the Giants on Saturday, reuniting the outfielder with manager Bruce Bochy.
Roberts, 34, spent the past two seasons with Bochy in San Diego and had said he would be interested in following his manager to the Giants.
Roberts will lead off again in 2007, which makes him an outstanding source of steals in Rotisserie leagues.
www.sportsline.com /mlb/players/playerpage/28783   (310 words)

  
 Dave Roberts signs with Giants - JetNation.com
The 34-year-old Roberts spent the past two seasons with Bochy in San Diego and had said he would be interested in following his manager to the Giants.
Roberts is fourth in the majors with 195 steals the last five seasons, and his 81.3 percent success ratio is second best among players with at least 175 stolen bases in the span.
Roberts give the Giants flexibility because he has experience playing in both left and center field.
www.jetnation.com /forums/showthread.php?p=367363   (631 words)

  
 Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts came to the Boston Red Sox in July of 2004.
He was the forgotten man in the trades from that week because Nomar Garciaparra, Doug Mientkiewicz, and Orlando Cabrera grabbed all of the headlines.
In game 4 of the A.L.C.S. vs. the Yankees, he was the catalyst by stealing base after base and then scoring an important run off of Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning.
www.oceanviewpress.com /id14.html   (892 words)

  
 Dave Roberts' Playoff Blog: Keep the faith
Roberts is you ever read these comments you are my idol.
Dave, I can't begin to tell you how much I have appreciated you, your attitude and the way you play the game.
Dave, I'm proud to watch you play out there for the Padres.
daveroberts.mlblogs.com /daveroberts/2006/10/keep_the_faith.html   (1689 words)

  
 San Diego Padres, Doug Brocail, Dave Roberts, Mike Cameron, Major League Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com
SAN DIEGO -- Padres leadoff hitter Dave Roberts agreed Monday to a $2.25 million contract for 2006, and San Diego closed in on a $1 million deal for reliever Doug Brocail.
Roberts played center field for the Padres last year, but will be moved to left field this season to make room for Mike Cameron, who was obtained from the New York Mets on Nov. 18.
Roberts batted.275 with a team-high 23 stolen bases, eight homers, 38 RBI and 65 runs.
cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/story/9092653   (305 words)

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