Jimmy Collins
FameRank: 5

"As Player"

* Atlanta Braves/Boston Beaneaters

* Louisville Colonels

* Atlanta Braves/Boston Beaneaters (-)

* Boston Red Sox/Boston Americans (-)

* Oakland Athletics/Philadelphia Athletics (-)

"As Manager"

* Boston Red Sox/Boston Americans (-)

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* World Series champion: 1903 World Series/1903

* National League pennant: 1897, 1898

* American League pennant: 1904

* National League List of Major League Baseball home run champions/home run champion: 1898

* 5 seasons with a .300+ batting average

* 2 seasons with 100+ RBI

* 4 seasons with 100+ runs scored

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"James Joseph Collins" (January 16, 1870 – March 6, 1943) was an American people/American professional baseball player. He played fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball. Collins was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.

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Young is rugged for a freshman. He set screens we couldn't get around.

I'm glad I didn't have a whistle tonight, because I thought we were going to lose the game at the free-throw line. In the middle of the game, they will call that a foul.

We had no answers for Horan, Sheets and Graves.

Christmas came late for us. As a coach ... we got a gift.

Speaking of team, that's what we faced. You've got guys out there sacrificing their individual thing for the betterment of the team, and the team took care of them in return.

We're not doing the small things it takes to win right now. We've got to go back to the drawing board and practice blocking out, faking before we pass, making free throws.

All we can do is knock the dust off, get up and try to get better.

He was too much for us. He dribbled and passed, posted up and drove. He doesn't look like he's big [6-5, 165 pounds], but he plays big. We tried to pass over him, but he just took it out of the air.

Better to learn them out here on the basketball court than to have to learn them in jail or in the ground. Learn some things about what respect means.