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cmoking,
I'll offer a theory on this, which is that T206 attracts a mass audience relative to other prewar issues. This mass audience is on average not as schooled in baseball history as the more limited audience that collects other prewar issues, and therefore is not as familiar with Matty as it is with Young. The casual baseball fan who dabbles in T206 knows that Young is the guy whose name is on the award they give out every year. The hardcore baseball fanatic who has been piecing together his D-card set at a rate of two a year appreciates that Matty was inducted into the Hall of Fame before Young.
Scot