The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

After docking with their Agena booster in low orbit, Young and Collins used it to climb another 763. 8 kilometers to meet with the dead, drifting Agena left over from the aborted Gemini 8 flight — thus executing the program's first double rendezvous.

After the rendezvous, Collins space-walked over to the dormant Agena at the end of a 15. 24 meter tether, making Collins the first person to meet another spacecraft in orbit.

Citizen Kane launched the film careers of the Mercury Players, including Agnes Moorehead ( who played Kane's mother ), Ruth Warrick ( Kane's first wife ), and Ray Collins ( Kane's political opponent ).

Collins had contributed to Plant's first two solo albums while Martinez was a member of Plant's group Band of Joy.

In 1925, Australian Jack Scott first bowled a form of bodyline in a state match for New South Wales, but his captain Herbie Collins disliked it and would not let him use it again when he was captain.

Its first machetes were sold in 1845 and became so famous that all good machetes were called " un Collins .".

Collins was the first – ever draft choice of the expansion Carolina Panthers in 1995, and led the Panthers to the NFC Championship game in his second season.

In 1992, Crow recorded her first attempt at her debut album with Phil Collins ' producer Hugh Padgham.

STS-93, launched on July 23, 1999, was commanded by Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, the first female Commander of a U. S. spacecraft.

As noted below ( see Reading Order ), the first American publisher, Macmillan, numbered the books in publication sequence, but when Harper Collins won the rights in 1994, at the suggestion of Lewis ' stepson they used the series ' internal chronological order.

The recipe for the Tom Collins first appeared in the 1876 edition of Jerry Thomas ' " The Bartender's Guide ".

* July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 ( Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins ) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.

* October 31 – Michael Collins, astronaut, second person to fly around the Moon solo, Command Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first human lunar landing

In one of Max Allan Collins ' first stories as the strip's writer, the gangster known as " Big Boy ," whose gang members had killed Tess Trueheart's father years ago, learned that he was dying and had less than a year to live.

Legal notables who have been honorary fellows of the college include the late Sir John Smith, the pre-eminent criminal lawyer of his generation, the first solicitor to be appointed to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords, Lord Collins of Mapesbury and Sir Robert Jennings, former President of the International Court of Justice.

By the time the soap opera had been cancelled, Collins followed in her sister's footsteps and published her first novel Prime Time ( 1988 ) which became a bestseller despite critical pans.

Collins played for the Sixers for his entire NBA career after being the first overall pick in the 1973 draft, and had previously coached the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, and the Washington Wizards.

Although they lost the series, Doug Collins was praised for turning around a lottery team in his first season, as well as winning a playoff game when many pundits predicted that the Sixers would be swept.

The first of these was Gothic romance writer Marilyn Ross's Barnabas Collins series ( 1966 – 71 ) loosely based on the contemporary American TV series Dark Shadows.

The event was the first time that Sting had worked with Geldof, Collins and Ure – an association that developed further with 1984's Band Aid and 1985's Live Aid.

Mee became a confidant and ally of Michael Collins.

Camps such as Frongoch internment camp became " Universities of Revolution " where future leaders like Michael Collins, Terence McSwiney and J. J. O ' Connell began to plan the coming struggle for independence.

Garden Ghouls Gazette – a 1960s horror title under the editorship of Dave Keil, then Gary Collins — was later headed by the late Frederick S. Clarke and in 1967 became the respected journal Cinefantastique.

Management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins ' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority.

The pro-treaty IRA soon became the nucleus of the new ( regular ) Irish National Army created by Collins and Richard Mulcahy.

However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success as a lead in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane ; Moorehead and Collins became successful character film actors.

) Further success was accorded to A Little Night Music when " Send in the Clowns " became a hit single for Judy Collins.

In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.

As time passed, interest in the Tom Collins diminished and its origins became lost.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

From the early-to-mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival, where she introduced her audiences to the then-unknown Bob Dylan ( the two became romantically involved in late 1962, remaining together through early 1965 ), and was emulated by artists such as Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt.

John Collins to start Christian Action in December 1946, an organisation with similar aims ( which later became involved in the campaign against Apartheid ).

The site of the new post became the nucleus of the town of Fort Collins, incorporated in 1873 after the withdrawal of the Army.

Fifty-eight hours of this was devoted to geology, something that Collins did not readily understand and in which he never became very interested.

* William Collins ( publisher ) ( 1789 – 1853 ), Scottish publisher ; founder of the Collins publishing house, that became part of Harper Collins

In 1957, Hawthorn joined the Ferrari factory team, and soon became friends with Peter Collins, a fellow Englishman and Ferrari team driver.

Meanwhile Michael Collins became Chairman of the Provisional Government of the provisional state created in the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.

It was named for Dr. A. H. Collins, an engineer and surveyor who first surveyed the land that became this community.

Then it became known as either Collins or Collins Post Office.