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09-22-2016, 11:35 AM
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He's no Tom Collins when it comes to drink popularity
I am not sure why Eddie doesn't command the collector respect (perhaps because nothing about him is exciting or 'sexy'), but being a bargain shopper, I have built up a pretty decent collection of his cards due to this lack of demand.
For the sake of my future collecting, please keep this info on the low down. Brian 
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09-22-2016, 12:18 PM
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Eddie Collins
It's helpful to see that Lajoie, Speaker, and Young got into the Hall of Fame in 1937 -- voted on by people who saw them all player -- and Collins didn't make the cut that year.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_1937.shtml The next year, Alexander got in, but no one else. It wasn't until 1939 that Collins got in, along with Sisler and Keeler. That gives a pretty strong impression that as great as Collins was statistically, he wasn't thought of as that ultra-top-tier great by his contemporary critics. As an aside, I'm a pretty big Eddie Collins fan - of all the famous ballplayers who have come out of New York, none of them came from as close to where I grew up in the lower Hudson Valley. Collins came out of Tarrytown, NY!
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09-22-2016, 01:51 PM
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Collins as underachiever
Another observation...since the early eighties when I began collecting vintage, Eddie Collins has always been undervalued compared to his top tier status as a HOF ballplayer. So this collector perception certainly has been around for a long time.
Brian
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09-22-2016, 02:57 PM
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IDK why this is honestly. He's probably the 2nd greatest 2b of all time after Hornsby (who is in a league of his own really at 2b), he's got good career numbers relative to his peers at all positions and is nearly one of the 10 most productive players of ALL TIME!!! (I'd put him in the 11-15 range,which is elite of the elite)
I guess the fact he played for a lot of teams and perhaps didn't have a personality that was marketable or something hurts him. I have noticed that 2b seems to be the red headed stepchild of baseball too. for some odd reason.
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09-24-2016, 09:10 PM
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