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United States Specialty Sports Association is an organization that sanctions and holds events for a wide range of sports including youth baseball, fastpitch softball, and more. In the past few years, a popular trend has emerged in the world of youth sports, and that trend is Trading Pins! USSSA trading pins are gaining in popularity, and for good reason. They’re awesome!
USSSA Trading Pins are usually designed by the team who’s logo is displayed on the trading pins, and each player can give their input as to the design of the pin. Team moms and dads, even coaches, band together to come up with a final design for their teams’ pins for that year (the teams usually design a new pin for each season) and have them made by a custom manufacturer. This creates a very unique pin, and to the kids it’s all about tradeability. The cooler the design, the better the pins will trade at the pin trading events, which are held all over the country at baseball and softball fields.
Just from my experience, I’ll include a few pointers if your team is looking to make custom made trading pins.
- Include your team’s logo or image
- Include the age group of your team
- Consider including the year, so that other teams can put a designation on the pins, older pins seem to become very collectible because of their age.
- Stay consistent with your team colors, but if they’re not bright and vibrant, consider sprucing them up.
- Include some sport-related images, for example maybe a baseball player if a baseball team, or a girl throwing a softball for a fastpitch team.
If you’d like some more information about USSSA Trading Pins or Pin Trading in general, check out some of the resources I’ve included below.
USSSA Official Website:
www.usssa.com
USSSA Baseball Website:
www.usssabaseball.org
Louisiana USSSA Website:
www.lausssabaseball.com
In the world of sports, just about any sport has a following of pin collectors. Pins are designed and made by fans to support the sport they love.
Hockey pins are being traded at hockey events around the globe, and quickly emerging as a very popular item on the collecting market. There are professional league hockey pins, Olympic hockey pins, youth hockey pins, and many more types out there. What you choose to collect and trade is purely up to you, and the sky is the limit!
Many hockey pins feature hockey sticks, and possibly an ice rink or another design portraying the sport of hockey. Many hockey trading pins also feature a teams’ logo and slogan for that extra touch of uniqueness, and hockey pins are one of the most collectible types of lapel pins out there today. 
