    brian michael roberts (born october 9, 1977) is a former american 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. ===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 the national collegiate athletic association's division i. his father, mike roberts, was the head coach of the tar heels. no other division i baseball program offered roberts a scholarship.{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3747235 |title=thanks to his father, brian roberts has been around baseball all his life - espn the magazine |publisher=sports.espn.go.com |date= |accessdat
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