Have any players had 100 or more RBI in a season with less than 10 homeruns?

Question

Nice job Justin, he also scored 97 runs and hit .302 that year.

Anyone else or is that it?

Answer 1

Ty Cobb did it five times, and I knew about him.

Now, looking it up...

Such a season (>=100 RBI, <10 HR) has occurred 201 times since 1871. The most recent -- Paul Molitor (113/9) in 1996. Herr's 1985 preceded, and then we have to reach back to George Kell (101/8) in 1950. There's a few instances in the 1940s, and from the 1930s back there's many more.

And there's some well-known or HOF names in there, some more than once: Lou Boudreau, Goose Goslin, Joe Cronin, Pie Traynor, Bill Terry, Bob Meusel, brother Irish Meusel, Paul Waner, Harry Heilmann, Wally Pipp, Al Simmons, George Sisler, Frankie Frisch, Tris Speaker, Cobb, Heinie Zimmerman, Happy Felsch, Sam Crawford, Honus Wagner, Mike Donlin, Nap Lajoie, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Hughie Jennings, George Davis, Dan Brouthers, Charlie Comiskey, Cap Anson.

Used to happen quite often. Now, not so much.

Answer 2

I'm gonna guess the most recent player to do this was Paul Molitor. In 1996, he hit .341, with 9 HRs and 113 RBI as a DH with Minnesota. [sorry Chip, didnt see that!]

Answer 3

In my time of being a baseball fan, St. Louis Cardinal second baseman Tom Herr had only 8 homeruns on his way to 110 RBIs in 1985.

I'm sure there are examples from the dead ball era.

Answer 4

Lots of old-time guys - Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner did it multiple times.

This guy, Bill Sweeney, had 100 RBI and only 1 HR in 1912.

EDITED TO ASK:
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Answer 5

It's happened about 200 times going back to the early days of the National League:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/9BUq

I thought it was also interesting to see how often it's been done since 1920, the start of the home run era.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/BZVm