Eddie Collins

Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox. A graduate of Columbia University, Collins holds major league career records in several categories and is among the top few players in several other categories. In 1925, Collins became just the sixth person to join the 3,000 hit club – and the last for the next 17 seasons. His 47 career home runs are the fewest of anyone in it. Collins is the only non-Yankee to win five or more World Series titles with the same club as a player. He is also the only player to have been a member of all five World Series championships won by the Athletics during the franchise's time in Philadelphia.

2 May 1887

Born on the same birth date (2 May 1887): Vernon and Irene Castle

Born on the same birth day (2 May): Alfons Schuhbeck • Brian Aherne • Catherine Labouré • David Suchet • Dwayne Johnson • Harry J. Capehart • Henry Hall (bandleader) • Huang Zitao • James F. Byrnes • John Frederick Coots • John Scott Haldane • María Teresa Torró Flor • Otto Staudinger • Peggy Mount • Pinky Lee • Sebald de Weert • Tina Maze • Valery Gergiev • Willie Miller • Yasushi Akimoto • Yongle Emperor

Born in the same month (May 1887): A. W. Sandberg • Alexander Archipenko • Andrew Dasburg • Ants Kurvits • C. R. M. F. Cruttwell • Emil Reesen • Maria Lacerda de Moura • Marika Kotopouli • Mervyn S. Bennion • Nikolai Vekšin • Padre Pio • Saint-John Perse • Thoralf Skolem • Vernon and Irene Castle