Career
He played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Saint Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Blues. Knouff started his professional baseball career in 1884, at the age of 16, with Newark of the Eastern League. He bounced around various leagues until 1892.
In 1897, Knouff was serving as a Philadelphia firefighter when he fell and broke his back.
Doctors were unable to help him, and he lingered on a cot in a hospital until his death in 1900.
