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

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.