Robert Troxell "Ray" Knode (January 28, 1901 - April 13, 1982) was an American Major League Baseball

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 baseball and college football

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 player. He played for four season as a first baseman

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 with the Cleveland Indians

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 from 1923 to 1926.

Knode attended the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

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, where he played on the football team

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 as a quarterback

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 from 1916 to 1919. He later attended the University of Michigan

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, where he also played quarterback from 1921 to 1922.

His older brother, Kenneth T. Knode

Mike Knode

Kenneth Thomson "Mike" Knode was an American football and baseball player.Knode was born in Westminster, Maryland in 1895. He attended both the University of Maryland and University of Michigan, playing football and baseball at both institutions...

 followed a similar career path. He played professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals

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and as a quarterback at both Maryland and Michigan.

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