Edward Lee King (December 26, 1892 – September 16, 1967) was an American

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. He played in

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(MLB) from 1916 to 1922 for the

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, and

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. King drove in the final run of the

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with a double for his victorious team, the Giants. It came in his only at-bat in a World Series game. His perfect 1.000 batting average and 2.000 OPS are World Series records. He had 294 hits in a seven-year career, with a batting average of .247 along with 15 home runs and 144 RBI. Another outfielder with exactly the same name, Edward Lee King, born two years later, also played

, both men going by their middle names, Lee.

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