{{Short description|American baseball player (1867–1900)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Ed Knouff |image=Ed Knouff.jpg |caption=1887 baseball card of Knouff |position=Pitcher |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date=June 1867 |birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1900|9|14|1867|6}} |death_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=July 1 |debutyear=1885 |debutteam=Philadelphia Athletics |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=June 7 |finalyear=1889 |finalteam=Philadelphia Athletics |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=20–20 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=4.17 |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=128 |teams= *Philadelphia Athletics (1885) *Baltimore Orioles (1886–87) *St. Louis Browns (1887–88) *Cleveland Blues (1888) *Philadelphia Athletics (1889) }} '''Edward Augustine "Fred" Knouff''' (June 1867 – September 14, 1900) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from 1885 to 1889. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Browns, and Cleveland Blues.
==Biography== Knouff started his professional baseball career in 1884, at the age of seventeen, with Newark of the Eastern League. He played in various leagues until 1892.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=knouff001ed-|title = Ed Knouff Minor Leagues Statistics & History}}</ref>
In 1897, Knouff was serving as a Philadelphia firefighter when he fell and broke his back. Doctors were unable to help him, and Knouff remained in a hospital until his death in 1900.<ref>''The New York Times'' obituary, September 16, 1900.</ref>
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