TradeBarry.com Website Steps Up to Plate with Barry Bonds and his Chase of Home Run Record

After Topps trading cards confused sports fans around the nation with its “Trade Barry” billboard, an enterprising San Francisco Giants fan has turned the tables on the trading card leviathan by creating a website that is not confusing at all. www.tradebarry.com celebrates Barry Bonds and his home run record chase.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 12, 2006 -- Want the latest on Barry Bonds’ home run chase? Then visit www.tradebarry.com the brainchild of Nick Russo, a diehard San Francisco Giants fan. Russo’s site not only celebrates Bonds’ quest to dethrone Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, it is also shaping up to be a site that will be a lot of fun for baseball fans.

TradeBarry.com will not only have fan forums to discuss Bonds and his home run chase, it will also offer promotional items, collectibles, and even give away a pair of San Francisco Giants tickets to a lucky winner each week. And one lucky fan will even win a pair of season tickets for the 2007 season.

“We’re a hometown grassroots thing, but because we’re going to get lots of visitors, people are already talking to us about being advertising partners. It’s exciting,” said Nick Russo in an interview. “And regular fans will be able to buy pixels for a dollar.”

But before you go thinking this is all about cashing in on Bonds, Nick explains that the site plans “to use the pixel bucks to get enough money to buy a couple of the record-breaking home run balls. So they won’t just stay in some collector’s shelf. We’re going to put them on tour like Todd McFarlane did. Donate the proceeds to charity.“

Although the site’s name is based on the slogan that TOPPS trading cards used on a billboard, www.tradebarry.com it is not affiliated with the Topps Company. In fact, Nick was surprised when he went to log on to the domain name and saw the trading card company didn’t own it. “It was crazy to get that much publicity and not own the website. I never thought I’d be smarter than an entire marketing department of a place like Topps, but I guess I am. It’s like I hit a home run for the little guy.”

And the community of little guys, Giants fans, that Mr. Russo hopes will connect to with his site. “Fans have a lot in common,” he says, “You can be a millionaire in Silicon Valley or a bike messenger living in a studio apartment, it doesn’t matter. Sports make you equal. You still cheer for your team. Barry Bonds hitting homers is still exciting.”

www.tradebarry.com is a website that celebrates the historic home run record chase of Barry Bonds and the upcoming winning season of the San Francisco Giants.

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