Ron Shoop

{{Short description|American baseball player (1931–2003)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Ron Shoop |position=Catcher |image=Ron Shoop.jpg |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1931|9|19}} |birth_place=Rural Valley, Pennsylvania |death_date={{death date and age|2003|3|14|1931|9|19}} |death_place=Rural Valley, Pennsylvania |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=August 22 |debutyear=1959 |debutteam= Detroit Tigers |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=September 27 |finalyear=1959 |finalteam= Detroit Tigers |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.143 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=0 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value=1 |teams= * Detroit Tigers ({{mlby|1959}}) }}

'''Ronald Lee Shoop''' (September 19, 1931 – March 14, 2003) was an American professional baseball player and catcher, who played part of the {{mlby|1959}} season for the Detroit Tigers. Shoop batted and threw right-handed, stood {{convert|5|ft|11|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|180|lb}}. His professional career extended for ten years (1951–52 and 1955–62). He missed the 1953–54 seasons while performing military service.

For his MLB career, Shoop compiled a .143 batting average in seven at-bats, with one run batted in. His lone hit, a single, came off Bob Shaw of the Chicago White Sox in Shoop's final big-league game.

He was born and later died in Rural Valley, Pennsylvania, at the age of 71.

==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=s/shoopro01}}

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