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Wally Pipp

American baseball player

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Wally Pipp was an American professional baseball player, primarily a first baseman, who played from 1913 to 1928. He was born on February 17, 1893, in Chicago, Illinois. Pipp had a career batting average of .281, with 1,941 hits and 90 home runs. He also achieved 1,004 runs batted in and won one World Series championship. Pipp played his entire career in Major League Baseball, finishing his last game on September 30, 1928.1

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