1997 E-X 2000

 This brand keeps morphing from year to year.  The Emotion name is not mentioned any more on the 1997 set.  Emotion is shorted to just E, and while last year was E X-L, the 1997 set is called E-2000.  I'm not sure what the 2000 stands for.  The set has just 100 cards, so its not the set size.  It's a 1997 set, so the year 2000 is still a ways into the future.

The price of the cards changed dramatically.  A pack still cost $4.99, but each pack contained just two cards.  It was eight cards in 1996 and seven in '97, but yikes, down to just two cards seems harsh.

The 1996 set had three different colored borders and in 1997 they kept that theme and added another color. The big change was going from paper borders to a chrome-type border.  Also, the player is cut out and pasted against a cellophane background.  My assumption is that these two changes in production explain the bump in price.

With the disappearance of the Emotion label, the descriptive words seen on the front of the cards during the first two years is gone.

Three Cubs were in the set, and they are the three big names you'd expect, Grace, Sandberg, and Sosa.