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.

* 1887 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player ( d. 1951 )

Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.

** Eddie Collins, American baseball player ( b. 1887 )

* January 30 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic ( d. 1940 )

* September 2 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic ( b. 1883 )

* May 2 – Eddie Collins, baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* James Dunn as Eddie Collins

Bootsy Collins has also incorporated recordings of Hazel in some of his recent releases, for example, " Good Night Eddie " on Blasters of the Universe.

* Eddie Collins, Hall of Fame baseball player.

He co-wrote many noteworthy Parliament-Funkadelic songs, and he made important contributions to P-Funk spin-off acts including Bootsy Collins and Eddie Hazel.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

* 512: Eddie Collins ( 2B ) ( major league record )

The American League record is 435, held by Hall of Famer Eddie Collins.

All of them were members of a faction on the team that resented the more straight-laced players on the squad, such as second baseman Eddie Collins, a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University, catcher Ray Schalk, and pitcher Red Faber.

Famous Texan musicians and groups include Bob Wills / Texas Playboys / Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown / Musical Brownies / Light Crust Doughboys, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Eddie Durham, Albert Collins, Blind Willie Johnson, Johnny Copeland, Z. Z.

Despite breaking the. 400 mark, Heilmann finished third in the 1923 American League Most Valuable Player voting behind Babe Ruth and Eddie Collins.

Carew's career total of 17 steals of home currently puts him tied for 17th on the list with former New York Giant MVP Larry Doyle and fellow Hall of Famer Eddie Collins.

: Eddie Collins, 3 ( 1912 – 1914 )

: 4 Eddie Collins ( 1910, 1919, 1923 – 1924 )

In the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James named Morgan the best second baseman in baseball history, ahead of # 2 Eddie Collins and # 3 Rogers Hornsby.

* 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer ( d. 2001 )

* 1964 – Eddie Trunk, American radio host and author

* 1961 – Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler ( d. 1995 )

* 1928 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2011 )

* 1978 – Eddie Gill, American basketball player

* 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player ( b. 1899 )

* 1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender

* 1973 – Eddie Pope, American soccer player

* 1916 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey ( d. 1997 )

* 1955 – Eddie L. Johnson, retired American professional basketball player and sex offender

* 1956 – Eddie Murray, American baseball player

* 1915 – Eddie Bracken, American actor ( d. 2002 )

* 1919 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach ( d. 2007 )

* 1930 – Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler ( d. 1985 )

* 1978 – Eddie Cahill, American actor

* 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.

* 1945 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier ( b. 1920 )

* 1967 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete ( b. 1908 )

* 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize ( d. 2004 )

* 1938 – Eddie Jones, American football executive ( d. 2012 )

* 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor ( d. 1956 )

* 1946 – Eddie Holman, American singer

* 1947 – Howard Kaylan, American singer ( The Turtles and Flo & Eddie )

* 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player ( d. 1961 )