Koob attended college at Western State Normal School.
An obituary published in the November 1941 issue of "The Sporting News" contained statements which complement and to some extent contradict the above information. It states that Mr. Koob was born in St. Louis in 1894; that he died in the Mount St. Rose Sanatorium (St. Louis) on 12 November 1941, of a lung ailment; that he played baseball under the name "Smith" while attending Kalamazoo State College; that he served in the US Army during The Great War; and that he played with the Browns until 1920.
While made in good faith, this template is unnecessary. There is already a page dedicated to no-hitters which actually details the no-hitters instead of leading to the page of a pitcher who pitched a no-hitter and gives no other info on the no-hitter itself. Also, can be misleading with regards to combined no-hitters and, in this case, teams which have long since moved (many of them were with the St. Louis Browns). As for perfect games, that already has a template. Additionally, user who created this template abandoned the project in the middle, only making one for 11 of the 30 MLB teams and not putting the template link in the pages of every related pitcher. Also, notably, the user did not make one for the teams with the most no-hitters. Omnis Scientia (talk) 15:54, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

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