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Posted By: Bob

Donlin, who should be a Hall of Famer, had frequent and violent run-ins with the law. He was the bizarro Christy Mathewson, a handsome player with tons of talent, but one who could have cared less about the young kids or his image. As I recall he left baseball (or was booted out temporarily) several times, so maybe someone thought, "aw, he'll be back soon," and kept printing cards.
I think you can see how popular and well thought of as a great player he and Hal Chase were by the number of cards of each in the 206 set...