Ray Knode

{{Short description|American baseball and football player (1901–1982)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Ray Knode

| image = Robert Knode.jpg

| position = First baseman

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1901|1|28}}

| birth_place = Westminster, Maryland

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1982|4|13|1901|1|28}}

| death_place = Battle Creek, Michigan

| bats = Left

| throws = Left

| debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = June 30

| debutyear = 1923

| debutteam = Cleveland Indians

| finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = September 26

| finalyear = 1926

| finalteam = Cleveland Indians

| statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .266

| stat2label = Hits

| stat2value = 55

| stat3label = Home runs

| stat3value = 2

| stat4label = Runs batted in

| stat4value = 32

| teams =

• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1923}}–{{mlby|1926}})

}}

Robert Troxell "Ray" Knode (January 28, 1901 – April 13, 1982) was an American Major League Baseball baseball and college football player. He played for four seasons as a first baseman with the Cleveland Indians from 1923 to 1926.

Knode attended the University of Maryland, where he played on the football team as a quarterback from 1916 to 1919.Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, pp. 84–92, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952. He later attended the University of Michigan, where he also played quarterback from 1921 to 1922.

His older brother, Kenneth T. Knode followed a similar career path. He played professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals and as a quarterback at both Maryland and Michigan.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104153959/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1770161602.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+19,+1916&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=STATE+LOSES+STAR+MAN&pqatl=google STATE LOSES STAR MAN; Curley Byrd's Football Team Hit Hard When Kishpaugh Decides To Leave College HOPKINS TAKES THINGS EASY Big Hospital List Prevents Practice--Bowers Probably Will Get In Saturday's Game], The Baltimore Sun, October 19, 1916.