T206 Players with 3 or more cards in the set

[Blunder19]

Curious as to everyones opinion on why some players who are not HOFers were given 3 different cards in the T206 set.. i would think the more cards a player has the more popular of a player he would have been at that time..

I would have expected a majority of the players with 3+ cards in the set to be HOFers..... For reference here are the 25 players with 3 or more cards in the set...the players in Bold are the HOFers which represent only 13 of the 25.

Do you think these popular players didnt finish strong enough to be in the HOF?.... maybe some of these non HOF players were the "snubbed players of their day" who didnt make it in..

(im excluding 4 players with variations/errors, namely elberfeld, kleinow frank smith, and magee.. the 3rd card for each of these 3 players was due to a team switch or error, not because the player was popular)

1. Red Ames
2. Chief Bender
3. Mordecai Brown
4. Howie Camnitz
5. Frank Chance
6. Hal Chase
7. Ty Cobb
8. Mike Donlin
9. Larry Doyle
10. Johnny Evers
11. Hugh Jennings
12. Nap Lajoie
13. Joe Lake
14. Rube Marquard
15. Christy Mathewson
16. John McGraw
17. George Mullin
18. Chief Meyers
19. Orval Overall
20. Admiral Schlei
21. Cy Seymour
22. Joe Tinker
23. Vic Willis
24. Hook Wiltse
25. Cy Young