Those of you who collected baseball cards in the 1980s will recall an oddity on the back of Tom Herr's card, specifically his stats in 1985. He drove in 110 RBIs while hitting only 8 HR.

Here's a list of the most recent seasons fitting the criteria of at least 100 RBI with fewer than 10 HR:

Cnt Player            Year RBI HR Age Tm
+---+-----------------+----+---+--+---+---+
    1 Paul Molitor      1996 113  9  39 MIN
    2 Tom Herr          1985 110  8  29 STL
    3 George Kell       1950 101  8  27 DET
    4 Dixie Walker      1946 116  9  35 BRO
    5 Dixie Walker      1945 124  8  34 BRO
    6 Bob Elliott       1945 108  8  28 PIT
    7 Billy Herman      1943 100  2  33 BRO
    8 Bob Elliott       1943 101  7  26 PIT
    9 Cecil Travis      1941 101  7  27 WSH
   10 Lou Boudreau      1940 101  9  22 CLE

You'll notice that other than Herr and Molitor, nobody has done it since 1950. In fact it's been done a total of 101 times, mostly back in the era when home runs were fairly rare unless your last name was Ruth. It was done the most times by Pie Traynor (6 times), Sam Crawford (5) and Tyrus Cobb (5). The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates had 3 players to do it: Traynor (106 RBI/5 HR), Paul Waner (131/9), and Glenn Wright (105/9)

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