Robert Samuel Sprout (born December 5, 1941) is a retired American professional baseball player who appeared in one Major League game for 1961 Los Angeles Angels. A left-handed pitcher, he stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg). On August 18, he set (and still holds) the Midwest League's single-game strikeout record, when he struck out 22 batters against the Waterloo Hawks. The Commodores won by a score of 3–0. Sprout spent most of 1961 with the Angels' Triple-A farm team, the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers, and was recalled in September when the rosters expanded.