Eddie Collins Second Base 1906-14 Philadelphia Athletics 1915-26 Chicago White Sox 1927-30 Philadelphia Athletics Played 25 seasons in the major leagues, a modern record only recently surpassed by Nolan Ryan. .333 lifetime batting average 3,315 career hits, ranks 9th all-time. Keystone of Connie Mack's famous "$100,000 Infield" Original member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, inducted 1939 Hit over .340 ten different seasons and in four different decades Player-manager, 1925-26 White Sox Played on four world champions and in six total World Series (Athletics: 1910, 11, 13, 14; White Sox: 1917, 19) with a career .414 postseason batting average. Was also a player-coach on the 1929-30 World Champion Philadelphia Athletics but did not appear in postseason play. Won 1914 Chalmers Award for Most Valuable Player in the American League Had 743 career stolen bases, ranks 7th all-time. Led the AL in stolen bases 4 times. Nickname was "Cocky" in honor of his confident style of play. Played more games (2,650) and had more putouts (6,526), assists (7,630) and total chances (14,591) than any other second baseman. Collins won nine fielding titles and, with the exception of 1918 when he missed 57 games because of injuries, he led the league in one or another fielding category every year from 1909 to 1922.

Eddie Collins and Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack, spring training 1928 In 1906, he made his debut under the name Sullivan until it was revealed that Sullivan was, in reality, Columbia University's junior quarterback and star infielder Eddie Collins. He was allowed to continue at Columbia as nonplaying captain and joined the A's after graduation. Was a high-level executive with the Boston Red Sox from 1932 until his death in 1951.

YR	TM	L	POS	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG
1906	Phi	A	3	6	15	2	3	0	0	.200	.200	.200
1907	Phi	A	S	14	23	0	8	0	2	.348	.348	.435
1908	Phi	A	2-S	102	330	39	90	1	40	.273	.312	.379
1909	Phi	A	2	153	571	104	198	3	56	.347	.416	.450
1910	Phi	A	2	153	581	81	188	3	81	.324	.382	.418
1911	Phi	A	2	132	493	92	180	3	73	.365	.451	.481
1912	Phi	A	2	153	543	137	189	0	64	.348	.450	.435
1913	Phi	A	2	148	534	125	184	3	73	.345	.441	.453
1914	Phi	A	2	152	526	122	181	2	85	.344	.452	.452
1915	Chi	A	2	155	521	118	173	4	77	.332	.460	.436
1916	Chi	A	2	155	545	87	168	0	52	.308	.405	.396
1917	Chi	A	2	156	564	91	163	0	67	.289	.389	.363
1918	Chi	A	2	97	330	51	91	2	30	.276	.407	.330
1919	Chi	A	2	140	518	87	165	4	80	.319	.400	.405
1920	Chi	A	2	153	602	117	224	3	76	.372	.438	.493
1921	Chi	A	2	139	526	79	177	2	58	.337	.412	.424
1922	Chi	A	2	154	598	92	194	1	69	.324	.401	.403
1923	Chi	A	2	145	505	89	182	5	67	.360	.455	.453
1924	Chi	A	2	152	556	108	194	6	86	.349	.441	.455
1925	Chi	A	M-2	118	425	80	147	3	80	.346	.461	.442
1926	Chi	A	M-2	106	375	66	129	1	62	.344	.441	.459
1927	Phi	A	2	95	226	50	76	1	15	.336	.468	.412
1928	Phi	A	S	36	33	3	10	0	7	.303	.378	.394
1929	Phi	A	PH	9	7	0	0	0	0	.000	.222	.000
1930	Phi	A	PH	3	2	1	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500
	25			2826	9949	1821	3315	47	1300	.333	.424	.429