Pat Collins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1896
Place of Birth: Sweet Springs, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 20-May-1960
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Pat Collins
- Tharon Leslie "Pat" Collins (September 13, 1896 – May 20, 1960) was an American baseball catcher who played ten seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
- He played for the St.
- Louis Browns, New York Yankees and Boston Braves from 1919 to 1929.
- Collins batted and threw right-handed and also played five games at first base. Collins played minor league baseball for the Joplin Miners until 1919, when he signed with the Browns.
- After spending six seasons with the organization, Collins spent a one-year sojourn in the minor leagues before he was traded to the Yankees, where he spent the next three years and played in the famous 1927 Murderers' Row lineup.
- At the conclusion of the 1928 season, he was traded to the Braves, with whom he played his last major league game on May 23, 1929.
- A two-time World Series champion, he is famous for being the only major league player to pinch hit and pinch run in the same game.
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