How the Cubs are helping former UNC baseball player and coach Mike Roberts through a terrible time

Posted May 25, 2016
He walked into the Cubs' clubhouse in San Francisco last Friday, scared and nervous, as if he was a little kid. Mike Roberts, 66, has been in baseball more than 45 years. But he had never traveled with a major-league team, not even with his son, former major leaguer Brian Roberts. He certainly had never walked into a major-league clubhouse during the regular season. (FOX Sports)

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