why wasn't eddie collins banned from baseball?

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Posted By: jay wolt

Collins suspected there was a fix, Weaver knew there was one, as he sat in on the meetings, he never took the $$$ nor did he report it. Catcher Ray Schalk suspected there was a fix too, he's also in the Hall.
And just because Collins is in the Hall of Fame why should Weaver be elected? Even if he knew nothing about the fix his #'s were hardly Hall Of Fame calibre. Collins had over 3000 hits and hit almost .340 lifetime.

Collins was hated by his teammates since he made $15K in 1919 and virtually everyone else made about half to 2/3 of that, he wasn't one of the boys by any means. And just cause he hit poorly in the series it didn't mean he was on the take. If thats the case Dave Winfield who hat 1 hit in the 1981 World Series shouldn't be in the Hall either ...jay