Mel Roberts (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1943
Place of Birth: Abington Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 01-Sep-2007
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Mel Roberts (baseball)
- Melvin Henry Roberts (January 18, 1943 – September 1, 2007) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager.
- Primarily an outfielder during his playing days, all spent in the minor leagues, Roberts spent four seasons (1992–95) in Major League Baseball as the first-base coach of the Philadelphia Phillies, including service on the Phillies' 1993 National League pennant-winning team. Roberts was born in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, graduated from Abington Senior High School, and attended both Temple University and Spartanburg Technical College.
- A right-handed batter and thrower who stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg), he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1961 and played in their farm system for four seasons.
- After spending 1965 out of pro baseball, Roberts signed with the Phillies' system, playing for the 1966 Spartanburg Phillies as a teammate of Larry Bowa and Denny Doyle on a club that won a Western Carolinas League record 25 consecutive games and the league championship.
- With lengthy service as a player, coach and manager, Roberts became a longtime resident of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
- In 781 games played, Roberts batted .234 with 588 hits during a ten-season minor league playing career.After 1970, Roberts' last full-time season as a player, he became a coach in the Philadelphia organization with the Peninsula Phillies (1971), Reading Phillies (1972; 1977), Spartanburg (1973–76; 1978–83; 1985–86), and Bend Phillies (1985).
- He was the club's roving minor league outfield instructor for one season (1984).
- He then became a manager at Bend (1987) and Spartanburg (1988–91) before joining the Major League coaching staff of Phillies' manager Jim Fregosi in 1992.Upon leaving the Phils in 1996 after a 30-year career with the organization, Roberts joined the Atlanta Braves as a minor league coach and spent his final 12 seasons in baseball with the Braves.
- In 2007, his final campaign, Roberts was a coach with the Rookie-level Danville Braves of the Appalachian League when he died unexpectedly just as the season was concluding, in Danville, Virginia, at age 64, leaving a wife and four children.
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