shanocollins

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Collins Edward Trowbridge Collins, Sr. (May 2, 1887 – March 25, 1951), nicknamed "Cocky", was an American second baseman, manager and executive in Major League Baseball who played from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox. At the end of his career, he ranked second in major league history in career games (2,826), walks (1,499) and stolen bases (744), third in runs scored (1,821), fourth in hits (3,315) and at bats (9,949), sixth in on base percentage (.424), and eighth in total bases (4,268); he was also fourth in AL history in triples (187). He still holds the major league record of 512 career sacrifice hits, over 100 more than any other player. He was the first major leaguer in modern history to steal 80 bases in a season, and still shares the major league record of six steals in a game, which he accomplished twice in September 1912. He regularly batted over .320, retiring with a career average of .333. He also holds major league records for career games (2,650), assists (7,630) and total chances (14,591) at second base, and ranks second in putouts (6,526). Under the win shares statistical rating system created by baseball historian and analyst Bill James, Collins was the greatest second baseman of all time.

Hmm. Bain's archivist is crossing us up again. The photo is dated 1914 as wystan notes, and that's a Chicago uniform, but Collins didn't play for the White Sox until the 1915 season (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/collied01.shtml ) and that photo obviously wasn't taken in Feb. Collins would probably be a lot more famous if he hadn't played in the same era with Ty Cobb.

To make things more mysterious, the sequence number 29807-10 (whatever that means) is in order with the photo before and after it, so it appears to be in the right place in the collection. But on closer inspection of the full size photo -- I don't think that's Eddie. Putting the wrong name on the photo would explain the other apparent errors.

That's the ticket: this is Shano Collins. Compare: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3201064665/

Excellent work, rjones! And this is not the first time that we have discovered a screw-up in LOC's labeling of one of Bain's baseball player photos, as a result of sloppy work by the "Pictorial History committee of the Society for American Baseball Research."

Hilltop Park at 168th Street and Broadway in upper Manhattan, was the home of the New York American League franchise now known as the Yankees (then called the Highlanders) for its first decade of existence (1903-1912). The Yankees moved across Manhattan to share the Polo Grounds with the NL's Giants (who had briefly used Hilltop Park as a home in 1911 when an earlier version of the Polo Grounds caught on fire). They were the Giants' tenants for another decade until moving across the Harlem River to the Bronx in 1923. Hilltop Park is now the site of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

needs to be renamed, instead of Chacago it should be Chicago, sadly it will never be renamed because this is the government...

Other Bain/LOC photos of Shano Collins:

Other Bain/LOC photos of Shano Collins: