Cooperstown Trading Pins
Any kid who plays baseball knows about
Cooperstown. It’s the quintessential destination for little league players all over the country. Once teams from other states compete and win state and regional tournaments, they have the opportunity to travel to Cooperstown to play the best of the best, ultimately for an opportunity to participate in the
Little League World Series held in Williamsport, PA.
Cooperstown has helped popularize trading pins, and many teams have unique pins made especially for Cooperstown, almost making a separate type of trading pin altogether; Cooperstown Trading Pins.
Cooperstown trading pins range in size and color, but are usually fairly large (2-3″ or larger) in size. Teams want to look their best when trading with other players and the bigger pins get the most attention. Many teams have several designs, for specific events and so on, but when it comes to Cooperstown, they really throw down the gauntlet and go all out in an effort to be known as the most popular, “hottest” pin traded that season. Players from all over the country will head home with pins they received from other teams, so being the team with the coolest pin will travel with those players, as they show their friends and family back home the neatest pins they got whilst at Cooperstown.
Cooperstown trading pins have been around for about 12 years. They’ve seen increasing popularity in the last 6 years, and while mostly inexpensive, some of the pins can fetch a pretty penny. Teams are adding options like spinners, blinking lights, pins that dangle and sparkly glitter, all adding to the price of these little beauties. Nonetheless, teams go crazy for them, and they’re a must have! The kids truly cannot live without their Cooperstown trading pins.
If you’ve got kids playing at Cooperstown, make sure they don’t go empty handed. I’m not saying turn your wallet upside down and shake it, but I am saying that you don’t want your team to be the one with the wimpiest pins on the field come pin trading day. Do ya? huh? huh?
Commonly seen on trading pins, dangling pins are becoming very popular these days in sports pin trading and collectible pins. The idea is that you have one or more pins hanging from a larger pin (dangling) to create a more dramatic and unique look.
Most of dangling pins that I have only have 1, sometimes 2 pins hanging underneath the main pin. The pin shown here has several, and I’ve seen pins worn by Home Depot employees that have several dangling pins as well, apparently for years on the job or other goals achieved.
Cool stuff, huh? 
Everyone is invited to submit their trading pin designs for 2010 to us for our 1st Annual Trading Pin Design Contest.
We will be accepting submissions from teams around the world competing for 3 positions in our contest. There will be first, second, and third place winners, with #1 earning a $25 gift card to Wal-Mart, a page dedicated to their pin design on Lapel Pins USA, and a link to their team’s website. Second and third place runners-up will receive a link to their team’s website, along with a display of their trading pins right here on our website. The results will be posted here on August 2nd.
We’ll be accepting submissions through July 15th, so get your design sent in today: 
For anyone who collects pins, we’ve all seen baseball trading pins, softball trading pins, disney trading pins and more, but there’s another sport in which pin trading is gaining in popularity; soccer.
Soccer trading pins are nothing new, they’ve been around for years. Many youth soccer teams today often trade pins at their tournaments, and most teams have their very own pins custom made. The custom made pins are really the way to go for teams, because they can customize them using their logo, colors and slogans.
Coke is the most recognized brand in the world. Along with that comes enthusiasm for Coke collectibles and memorabilia.
Odyssey of the mind is a creative problem solving competition centered around teamwork and creative solutions. OOTM was founded in 1978 and has been an international craze ever since. The organization’s mascot, Omer is an iconic symbol that graces the face of many Odyssey of the Mind Pins.
Odyssey of the Mind pins are extremely popular. Teams trade pins at the World Finals and have done so for 20 years! OOTM has many rules in place for trading pins at the World Finals, and kids have a wonderful time trading and collecting their Odyssey of the Mind pins.
