Baseball Trading Pins Examples

Examples would be as such:

• Youth Baseball Team Name: Springfield Red Sox Baseball
• Geographic Area: Springfield Missouri
• Age Group: Boys 14u Baseball
• Info needed on pins: Our logo with 12 baseballs with players numbers and the year. Team colors are Red, White and Blue.
• and individual player's names and/or numbers.

• Size of pin
• Quantity needed
• Number of colors
• Type of pin desired
• Date of delivery
• Special Options

A History of Youth Baseball

Little League's roots extend as far as baseball's history itself even into the 18th century. Soldiers of the Continental Army played ball at Valley Forge during the American Revolution. During the Civil War, baseball teams formed on the battlefield to pass the time (thus leading to the nickname for the game: the Great American Pasttime). U.S. citizens played more modern versions of the British games of cricket and rounders through the early 19th century, often called "town ball." In the 1840s, New Yorker Alexander Joy Cartwright and his acquaintances played a game they called "base ball" that was very similar to the game we know today.

The first scheduled youth baseball game was played on June 19, 1846; Cartwright's New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club was defeated by the New York Baseball Club, 23-1, in four innings. As early as the 1880s, leagues were formed for preteen children in New York, but they were affiliated with adult "club" teams and did not flourish. Children often played "pickup" baseball in streets or sandlots instead, and with substandard equipment. Cast-off bats and balls were taped and re-taped, and catcher's equipment in children's sizes was almost nonexistent.

In the 1920s, the American Legion formed a baseball program for teenage boys that exists today. American schools also started baseball programs. But there was still a void for preteen boys who wanted to play in organized games. Other smaller programs cropped up from time to time, but did not catch on beyond local areas.

On June 6, 1939, in Pennsylvania, the very first Little League game ever played, Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy, 23-8. Lycoming Dairy came back to win the season's first-half title, and faced second-half champ Lundy Lumber in a best-of-three series. Lycoming Dairy won the final game of the series, 3-2.

Little League Baseball has become the world's largest organized youth sports program. In the space of just six decades, Little League grew from three teams to nearly 200,000 teams, in all 50 U.S. states and more than 80 countries.

And the basic goal remains the same as it did in 1939, to give the children of the world a game that provides fundamental principles (sportsmanship, fair play and teamwork) they can use later in life to become good citizens. Many youth baseball organizations have originated to accommodate the public demand for the sport; United States Specialty Sports Association Baseball (USSSA), Pony Baseball/Softball (PONY), and the Babe Ruth Baseball/Softball program, to name a few.

Baseball Trading Pins History

Trading pins began in athletics, and the first recorded pin trading celebrations took place at the Olympics. But, Olympic trading pins had their beginning as badges. In 1896, in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, the badges of various colors were used to identify the officials and the athletes.

It is in 1906, at the Intermediate Olympic Games of Athens, that the first pin in the color of a delegation made its appearance, that being Sweden. Around 1924, the athletes started to exchange pins as a sign of international friendship. During the years that followed, the uses, manufacturing, and the varieties evolved to the trading pins we know today.

Until the end of the 70s, pin trading was mainly restricted to the athletes and to officials. It is at the 1980 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid that pin trading became an activity of the masses. They allowed the spectators to collect memories and stories, and to start their own pin collections.