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[[File:Jimmy Collins HOF.jpg|thumb|upright|right|110px|Collins' plaque at the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]]]]
When Collins was inducted into the Hall of Fame in [[Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1945|1945]], he was the first to be chosen primarily as a third baseman.<ref>[http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/colliji01/bio Jimmy Collins at The Baseball Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720214804/http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/colliji01/bio |date=2014-07-20 }}</ref> In 1981, [[Lawrence Ritter]] and [[Donald Honig]] included him in their book ''The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time''. Collins became a charter member of the [[Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milb.com/team1/page.jsp?ymd=20100224&content_id=8132850&vkey=team1_t422&fext=.jsp&sid=t422|title=Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame|access-date=29 August 2012}}</ref>
 
In a 1976 ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine article, sportswriter [[Harry Stein (author)|Harry Stein]] published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter", consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Because of space limitations the [[Irish people|Irish]] team, including Collins as third baseman, was omitted.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1976/7/1/the-all-time-all-star-argument-starter |title=All-Time All-Star Argument Starter |author=Stein, Harry |magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |date=July 1, 1976}}</ref>
 
==Managerial record==