BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — National Baseball Hall of Famer James “Jimmy” Collins, known best for in the early 1900s revolutionizing the way third base is played, was a first-generation Irish-American, a ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 1917 “Buffalo Evening News” article deemed legendary Boston third baseman and manager Jimmy Collins as “the first one to put Buffalo on the map as a city which rears great ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Baseball Hall of Famer Jimmy Collins was born to Irish immigrants Anthony and Alice Collins in Niagara Falls on Jan. 16, 1870. He and his family moved to Buffalo two years later ...