Hub Collins


Hubert "Hub" Collins was a professional baseball player. He was a left fielder and second baseman over parts of seven seasons with the Louisville Colonels and Brooklyn Bridegrooms/Grooms. He was the National League leader in runs scored in 1890 with Brooklyn. For his career, he compiled a.284 batting average, 319 runs batted in, 653 runs scored, and 335 stolen bases.
He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 28 of typhoid fever.