In 2025, the Columbia University baseball team had an excellent season and advanced to the NCAA Division I Regionals. But Columbia also had baseball talent 120 years ago, especially with an eventual Major League all-time great, Eddie Collins. Displayed is a 1905 Columbia University Trophy on which is engraved the name of Collins, a Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman, who earned his fame for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics and as one of the honest players on the 1919 Chicago White Sox, infamously known as the "Black Sox." Collins played in the Major Leagues from 1906-30: Philadelphia Athletics (1906-14 & 1927-30), Chicago White Sox (1915-26). He batted a career .333 with 3,315 hits and 745 stolen bases. Collins was a 4-time AL stolen base champ. He was the AL MVP in 1914, and he won six World Championships, five of them with the Philadelphia Athletics. Aside from players from the New York Yankees, Collins is the only player to have won five or more World's Championships with the same team. Columbia later contributed another eventual Baseball Hall of Famer, first baseman Lou Gehrig, who played on the 1923 Columbia Lions. 

The offered trophy is silver. It has a base diameter of 2.75" and a top diameter of 3.2". It is approx. 6.4" from handle-to-handle wide, and 6.2" high. Engraved on the trophy face: "Presented to Capt. W.R. Tyler in appreciation of his loyalty to the Columbia University Base Ball Team of 1905." Tyler was an outstanding college player who never played professionally. Engraved on back are 11 more names of Columbia players, including Eddie Collins (engraved on the trophy as "E. T. Collins"). The trophy exhibits a few very tiny dings, and a few minute spots where the silver has become tarnished. On the inside of the base is engraved "Bigelow, Kennards & Co., 864, XXX" and "Sterling", with some parts in "Sterling" rubbed off. The trophy is in overall very good condition, and it makes a unique collectible for a variety of fans: Aficionados of Columbia University, the Ivy League, Eddie Collins, the great Philadelphia Athletics dynasties, and those fascinated by the Chicago Black Sox and the innocent players, like Collins, who played to win.

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