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Eddie Collins

Literary birthday greetings: Cocky

May 2, 2011

Hall of Famer Eddie Collins was born this date in 1887. Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography The feature film Eight Men Out featured Bill Irwin in the Collins role. I remember thinking how wonderful a job he did, both as an actor and an athlete, for someone I had heretofore recognized only as a mime/clown. […]

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* Review: Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography

April 9, 2008

Gene Carney wrote this review of the new bio on Eddie “Cocky” Collins. I always found it bizarre that of all the actors John Sayles could have found to portray the second baseman in the film version of Eight Men Out, he chose Bill Irwin, who at the time was known more for his silent […]

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