Evening star., 1951-03-26
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Death of Eddie Collins at 63
First for As Fabulous InfieId
BY the Associated Press

|Trowbridge Collins, 63. whose
name has been a baseball byword
for nearly As years, died last night
|of a heart condition which had
benched him of and on for sew
|eral years.
Death came to the Hall of Fame
member and vice president of the
Red Sox at Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital where he was admitted
March 10 with a recurrence Of the
|malady.
It occurred less than two months
after Eddie's last public appear
|ance, February /. when baseball
writers honored him at their din
ner "for long, meritorious service"
to the sport.
He left his beloved Philadelphia
Athletics, with whom he broke
into the game in 1906 while a
Columbia University student, to
join Tom Yawkey when the mil
lionaire sports enthusiast and
businessman bought the mori-
bund Red Sox.
In Six World Series.
Collins participated In six World
Series. played more games than
any other second baseman in base
ball history and was elected to the
sports Hall Of Fame in 1899.
He compiled a 1888 batting
average In rs years of active
Iplay.
His is the first death among
the members of Connie Mack's
fabulous 100000 infield whicn
was broken up after the 1914 sea-
son when the amazing Boston
Braves whipped the AS in foul
straight World Series games.
The other members were First
IBaseman Stuffy McInnis, now
Harvard baseball coach; Short
stop Jack Barry. who coaches
Holy Cross, and Third Baseman
Frank CHome RUM Baker, now
a farmer at Trappe, Md.
Services will be held at 1926
am. Wednesday in the Episcopa
Church of the Advent here. The
body will remain in the chape
crypt until the funeral.
Collins, known as "Cocky" tt
oldtime baseball figures, was borr
in Millerton, N. Y, son of John
and Mary Collins, May 2, 1887
Connie Mack first became in
terested in the youngster when
he played for a Rockville, Conn.
Isemipro team under the name OF
Sullivan.
Mack signed him under that
name in 1906. He made a West
ern trip with the Athletics and
played in a few games. Eddie was
captain-elect of the Columbia
team at the time.
Admitted He Was Pro.
The fortnight Collins freely
admitted to Columbia officials
when asked, that he had played
pro baseball. That cost him the
captaincy at Columbia, but hi
remained as coach while earning
his degree in 1907. one Of thu
few undergraduate coaches at an,
major college.
Eddie came into his own in 1905
when Mack finally assigned hin
to second base and shifted thu
veteran Danny Murphy to right
field. Earlier Connie had expert.
mented with Collins at shortstor
and in the outfield. Eddie batted
.346 that season.
His batting average for six
World Series was $3.50. He played
in four with Philadelphia and two
with the Chicago White Sox, to
whom he was sold for the then
amazing price of $4,000 in 1914.
His honor never was questioned
when some of his 1919 Chicago
teammates sold out to gamblers
in baseball's greatest scandal.
Collins stayed with Chicago un-
til 1926 when he was released
after being the White Sox man
ager two seasons.
Connie Mack Immediately
signed him and made him team
captain. After age caught up with
him, Collins became a coach with