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Posted By: JimB

I have wondered if the E97 set was actually related to the E93 set. It is very similar in look and the only repeated player is Cy Young and we all know it is actually Irv Young in E97. What also leads me to this hypothesis is the fact that the E93 sheets and E97 sheets as well as blank back E93s that Mastro auctioned about a year or so ago all came from the same out-of-hobby source, suggesting to me that someone back in the day who had access to the printers of one had access to both. Thus, I think they were both printed in the same factory. Obviously they were used to advertise for different companies, but I think the designers and printers were one and the same. E98s probably fall into that category since they use many of the same poses as E93.
JimB