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In 2002 I took my card collecting to the next level when I discovered that I could trade cards with other collectors over the internet. I stumbled across a list of collectors online and started emailing them looking for trades and was quite successful so I joined an online trading group called Trading Bases and one of the prerequisites was that I had to have my own website. I bought a book titled The Complete Idiot's Guide to HTML and set about designing and creating my own website. I wanted it to be more than just a list of cards so I made individual Gallery pages of each player that I collect to display some of my favorite cards and added links to their resumes, stats and cards that I have available for trade of each player. I also devised a formula to come up with my own list of the Greatest Players of All-Time and put the top 100 on my site with links to pages of each player. By the way, the top 10 are pictured in my signature. You can also check my formula as there is a link to that. It's not perfect but it is fun and usually takes a player at least 10 years of excellence to crack the top 100. I added a page for links and another for information about me and my site and I have a Records page where I list the top 25 players in several key lifetime statistics along with links to all of their pages. You can literally spend hours bouncing around on my website and it is one of my proudest accomplishments. Here are nine cards from my collection that were all released in that year.

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2002 Finest X-Fractors Protectors #62 Nomar Garciaparra
2002 Fleer Box Score All-Star Lineup Game Used #1 Derek Jeter Bat/Nomar Garciaparra Bat/Alex Rodriguez Jsy (I thought I'd picked up a card with three future Hall of Fame shortstops on it when I bought this. Whoops.)
2002 Fleer Platinum Clubhouse Memorabilia Combos #30 Alex Rodriguez Base-Jsy/300

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2002 Greats of the Game Autographs #JB Johnny Bench
2002 Topps Archives Reserve Bat Relics #TRRCYB Carl Yastrzemski 67 B
2002 Topps Coaches Collection Relics #CCBW Billy Williams Jsy (This is another card that I acquired from my Red Sox trading partner in Scotland.)

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2002 Topps Heritage Clubhouse Collection #CCGM Greg Maddux Jsy
2002 Ultra Hitting Machines Game Bat #4 Barry Bonds
2002 Upper Deck Peoples Choice Game Jersey Gold #PJKG Ken Griffey Jr.