I do think there is something to the forgettable name syndrome. Athletes like Troy Brown, Lee Smith, and Mike Scott are not remember to the degree they would have been had they had a name with more flair.
I think, though, that it is the fact that the T206 was near the beginning of Collins career. If all you want is a card with Eddie Collins on it, you can find them in issues all the way up to the Goudey's. In contrast there area relatively few Lajoie cards (as T206s were pretty near the end of his career) and many of them , outside of the T206, are very obscure and expensive.
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