E102 NNO Eddie Collins

Eddie Collins (1887–1951) hit left-handed and threw right, played second base for twenty-five major-league seasons, and finished his career with 3,315 hits — a total that placed him among the most productive position players of the dead-ball and live-ball transition. He came up with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, won four pennants and three World Series with the famous "$100,000 infield," and later anchored the Chicago White Sox lineup that played the 1919 Series — though Collins himself was on the honest side of that ledger. This card is from the E102 Anonymous Set of 25, an unmarked caramel issue whose imagery circulated under no manufacturer's name during the late tobacco-era window. Collins is shown in his Athletics uniform from his original Philadelphia tenure. He died March 25, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1939.