Clifford Hiram Knox (January 7, 1902 – September 24, 1965) was a professional

baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

. Nicknamed "Bud", he was a

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for one season (1924) with the

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. For his career, he compiled a .222

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in 18

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s, with two

runs batted in A run batted in or runs batted in (RBI) is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for making a play that allows a run to be scored (except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play). For example, if th ...

. He was born in

Coalville, Iowa Coalville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Webster County, Iowa, United States. The population was 651 at the 2020 census. The community is located on U.S. Route 20 near Fort Dodge's gypsum mines. History Coalville takes its name from t ...

and died in

Oskaloosa, Iowa Oskaloosa is a List of cities in Iowa, city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U ...

at the age of 63.

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