BobbyKnoop played 803 games as the Angels 2nd Baseman, was a GREAT fielder (edit - see comments) and of 32 Angels batters with 2,000 or more Plate Appearances, Knoop is 29th in Batting Average, 27th in On Base Percentage and 25th in Slugging %.
BobbyKnoop got his uniform dirtier than Davey Lopes did.
One thing about Knoop is that his offense looks worse than it was because (1) he had an awful rookie year with the bat and (2) he played in the mid-60s.
A superlative second baseman, Knoop (pronounced "Kuh-NOP") won three Gold Gloves and was voted the Angels' Owner's Trophy for "inspirational leadership, sportsmanship and professional ability"'i(((four times.
Called "the Nureyev of second base" by sportswriters, the acrobatic introvert established an AL second base record with 12 putouts in a nine-inning game (8/60/66).
Knoop and his roommate, shortstop Jim Fregosi, turned an AL-record six double plays in a May 1, 1966 game.
Robert Frank Knoop [kuh-NOPP] (born October 18, 1938 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and right-handed batter who played for the Los Angeles and California Angels (1964-69), Chicago White Sox (1969-70) and Kansas City Royals (1971-72).
Knoop was sent to the White Sox in the 1969 mid-season and was traded to the Royals in 1971.
In his career Knoop batted.236, with 56 home runs, 331 RBIs, 337 runs, 129 doubles, 29 triples, and 16 stolen bases in 1153 games.
In one of the most dominating season in baseball history Nolan Ryan had batters shaking their heads all year unable to hit the heat he served up on every start.
In Game 5 in front of a crowd relay to party Bobby Grich was the hero again fro the moment when his HR in and out of the glove of Red Sox CF Dave Henderson gave the Halos a 5-2 lead.
The Sox had 2 on and 1 run in, and with 2 strikes and all of Anaheim anticipating the final out Henderson lifted a ball over the CF fence to give the Sox a 6-5 lead.
