Eddie Collins
Eddie Collins was born in Dutchess County, New York, United States on May 2nd, 1887 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 63, Eddie Collins biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr. (May 2, 1887 – March 25, 1951), also known as "Cocky," was an American professional baseball player, manager, and executive.
He played for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930.
Collins, a Columbia University undergraduate, has compiled major league career records in several areas and is one of the top performers in various other categories.
Collins was the sixth person to join the 3,000 hit club in 1925, and the last for the next 17 seasons.
His 47 home runs were the fewest in the country. Since retiring as a player, Collins taught and managed in the major leagues.
He also served as the Boston Red Sox's general manager.
In 1939, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Early life
Born in Millerton, a 384-acre village in Dutchess County, New York, Collins was remarkable in his time, both his athletic abilities and his education and intelligence. He graduated from Columbia University (where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity) at a time when few major league players had attended college.
He began his professional baseball career on September 17, 1906, when he signed with the Philadelphia Athletics at the age of 19. Collins was still a student at Columbia when he joined the Philadelphia group. He appeared in some of his first minor league games under Sullivan's name so he'd have a chance to protect his academic reputation. Collins had lost his collegiate status when it was discovered that he was playing for Plattsburgh and Rutland in the 1906 Northern Independent League. He made his Athletic debut before he signed with the Athletics.
Major league career
He played in 102 games in 1908 and 1909 and was a full-time player in the 1907 season. He appeared in just 14 games of the 1907 season in the minor leagues. He had a.347 batting average and 67 steals during his time in that season. He would also be named as the A's starting second baseman in 1909, a position he will continue in for the remainder of his career, after having spent time in second, third, short, and outfield the previous two seasons. Collins played on the first of his six World Series championship teams in 1910, his first American League player to steal 80+ bases in a season.
Collins was known for his intelligence, competence, batting prowess, and speed. He is one of only five players to steal six bases in a game, and the only one to do so twice, with both players occurring within ten days on September 11, 1912 and September 22, 1912. He was a member of the Athletics' "$100,000 infield" (and the highest-paid of the foursome), which dragged the team to four American League (AL) pennants and three World Series titles between 1910 and 1914. In 1914, he received the Chalmers Award (early Most Valuable Player award) from the league.
The newly formed Federal League in 1914 fractured major league contract stability by lurering away established stars from the AL and NL with overpaid salaries. Collins' second baseman was given the longest guaranteed contract (five years) that had ever been given to a player by the Athletics manager. Collins declined, and after the 1914 season, Mack sold Collins to the White Sox for $50,000, the first time a reigning MVP was sold or traded (the others being Alex Rodriguez in 2003 and Giancarlo Stanton in 2017). Collins was paid $15,000 for 1915, making him the third highest paid player in the league, behind Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Paul Ryan.
Collins continued to bat top-ten batters and looted base numbers in Chicago, and he was a Sox pennant capture pennants in 1917 and 1919. He was a member of the legendary "Black Sox" team that lost the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in a controversial "Black Sox" series. Collins, on the other hand, was not accused of complicity and was assumed to have played honestly, despite his low.226 batting average.
He was named player-manager of the White Sox in August 1924 and spent the remainder of the 1926 season as a player-manager, capturing a record of 174–570 (.521). The White Sox's two full seasons were the only winning seasons from 1921 to 1936.
He hit his 3,000th hit of his career on June 3, 1925 to join the 3,000 hit team, the White Sox's sixth player to play in major league history, with R.J. Collins of the Detroit Tigers as the sixth player to play for the Detroit Tigers on a single. Similarly, this was also the first game in which two members of the 3,000 hit club were playing in the same tournament, as Ty Cobb played center field.
In 1927, Collins returned to Philadelphia to rejoin the Athletics as a player-coach. However, his playing career was over; he played in only 143 games in his last four years, mainly as a pinch hitter. In 1929 and 1930, the A's won the World Series, but Collins did not participate in either series. On August 2, 1930, his last game as a player came.
Collins had 1,300 runs batted in during his career. Collins is the only MLB player to play for at least 12 seasons. He ranked second in major league history (2,826), walks (1,499), and stolen bases (744), third in runs scored (1,821), fourth in hits (3,369), and eighth in total bases (4,268) upon his retirement (187).
He has a career sacrifice bunt total of 512, more than any other player. He was the first major leaguer to steal 80 bases in a season, and he still holds the major league record of six steals in a game, which he won twice in September 1912. He batted over 320 runs over the years, with a career average of.333. He also holds major league records for career games (2,650), assists (7,630) and total chances (14,591) at second base, and second in putouts (6,526). Collins is one of only 31 players in baseball history to have appeared in major league games in four decades.
Front-office career
Collins resigned as a player and immediately took over as a mentor for the A's following the 1930 World Series triumph. Collins was hired as vice president and general manager of the Boston Red Sox after two seasons as a mentor. Tom Yawkey, the current owner, was a close friend who had purchased the Red Sox at Collins' request. He took over a team that had suffered as a result of Babe Ruth's sale; the 1932 Red Sox finished 43-111, the lowest figure in franchise history.
Collins remained GM throughout the 1947 season before retiring at the age of 60 after a period of declining health, effectively ending his career in baseball. Collins converted a stumbling squad into a contender once more during his 15 years as general manager. Collins managed to win seasons in seven of his last 12 years as general manager, despite two years rebuilding the struggling team he had inherited. His 1946 team captured the Red Sox's first pennant since 1918. The Red Sox removed plaques honoring Yawkey and Collins from outside Fenway Park in May 2018, shortly after Boston changed the name of Yawkey Way to its original name of Jersey Street at the Red Sox's request, reportedly due to Collins' refusal to sign black players. John Henry, the team's current owner, had made strides to distance it from its alleged racial history. Since 1951, Collins' plaque had been on display.
In 1939, Collins was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
At the end of his life, he suffered with significant heart problems for several years. On March 10, 1951, he was admitted to a Boston hospital and died as a result of his heart disease on March 25 at the age of 63.