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Thank you for the clarification on that.

I sit comfortably corrected.

That Jimmy Collins card looks like Ripper Collins, I corrected the checklist.  Can any Cub experts verify?

I've got to give a hand to the tradingcarddb community. I made one little comment in a forum thread here about a way I thought the database information could be made more useful and the members here immediately jumped on the challenge to "correct" things. The list that is now generated by searching for Chicago Cubs and then Hall of Famers is quality information and extremely useful. This is just another example of why this site is so spectacular.

I don't pretend to be a Cub's expert, but a quick image search verifies your identification as correct. That is indeed James "Ripper" Collins. As a member of the Gashouse Gang Cardinals teams, Collins had a breakout season in 1934 with 35 home runs (a league-leading total). Collins is the only first baseman to have twice recorded no putouts in a nine-inning game – once for the Cardinals in 1935, and again for the Cubs in 1937. He was a member of the Cubs for the 1937 and 38 seasons and was one of the Cubs coaches from their failed college of coaches experiment. Here's a link to his SABR bio.