Raymond Watson Pepper (August 5, 1905 – March 24, 1996) was an American

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. He played all or part of five seasons in the majors, from until , for the

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and

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. Pepper's only season as a regular was , when he finished 10th in the

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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 ...

with 101 and batted .298. However, he only had 69 RBI in the rest of his career combined. Pepper holds the record for the least RBIs in a career for a player with a 100 RBI season.

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