1,000 Cooperstown spinner pins for Apple Valley — with glitter and a banner

Pins are trading currency there, not souvenirs, and the difference between a pin that gets traded and one that doesn't is size and finish. Two inches is the floor.

Not every player relies on the team's pin. One parent came to us specifically because their team's supplied pins, in their words, 'aren't really sought-after' — and had a single-player pin made for their kid instead.

Build in time. Rosters change between ordering and travelling; more than one design has needed a number pulled late because a player left the program before the trip.

Sourced — Two confirmed Cooperstown orders, 2026 season

A spinner pin is a construction type, not an accessory. An element of the design — usually a round logo, a puck or a ball — is mounted on a rivet so it rotates in place. It reads as a fidget as much as a badge, which is exactly why players trade for them.

Because it changes how the pin is built, it carries its own per-pin price. On a 2.5-inch soft enamel order at 250 pieces the quote was $3.44 per pin standard against $4.09 per pin as a spinner. That team chose standard construction and spent the difference on putting every player's number on the pin instead.

Sourced — Philadelphia 13U AA order, December 2025

No, and it is worth knowing before you fall in love with a layout. A moving element needs enough solid metal around its anchor point to survive being handled, so the type has to be chosen with the artwork rather than bolted onto it afterwards.

On one hockey design the customer asked for the stick-and-puck to be the moving element. The blade and puck could not carry it, and the counter-proposal was to spin the round logo in the centre instead. Round, chunky, central elements move; delicate outlying ones do not.

The same constraint applies to fine cut-outs. A multi-piece design with lots of small connecting bridges gets flagged in production before it is ever tooled — one puzzle-piece pin set had to be re-engineered because, in the shop's words, it would 'never hold up in production.'

Sourced — Two 2025 orders — production art direction

Glitter is a finish, so it applies to any pin type — standard, spinner or slider alike. It is mixed into the enamel of a chosen colour rather than applied on top, so it will not rub off.

It is specified per colour: one glitter colour, or several. Commonly it lands on a single accent area — the shape of a state, a star, a puck. A 1,500-pin association order ran one glitter colour across the whole run; another design used gold glitter only on the state-shaped element.

Sourced — Multiple 2025–26 orders

No. The free 3ft × 6ft banner promotion described in the older orders here has ended and is no longer available.

The current offer: order 1,000+ pins at 2″ or larger and get 200 pins free — choose 200 all-gold metal pins or 200 blackout pins at no additional cost. Free pins are produced from a design already included in your order.

The economics still favour the bigger pin. On one 2025–26 quote, 1.75 inch ran $1.07 each with nothing included and 2.0 inch ran $1.27 each with the bonus pins — and the bigger pin trades better anyway. Banners are still made to order, just priced rather than included.

Sourced — Current offer as of September 2026; historical banner spec from two purchase orders

Yes, and it's one of the most requested features — teams routinely choose it over spinner or slider construction when they have to pick one.

Numbers need contrast to stay legible at pin scale. White numbers on a dark element such as a black puck is a reliable pattern. Send the full roster with numbers when you send artwork, and tell us straight away if the roster changes.

Sourced — Multiple 2025–26 orders

Before the order goes to production, yes — changes are normal, and most designs go through two to four rounds.

Late roster changes are the common one. Tell us as soon as a number needs to come off; recomposing the layout is straightforward while the file is still open and expensive once tooling has started.

Sourced — Cooperstown 2026 order — mid-cycle roster change

No. Every figure in this library is what one team was quoted for one order, on the day they asked. It is published as a record, not as a price list.

Quantity and size move it most: the break runs about $0.20 per pin for every hundred pins, and the range here goes from a 1,500-pin corporate run at 1.25 inch to a 3 inch dangler with glitter. Pin type and finish are priced per pin on top of that — a spinner was $0.65 more per pin on one order, glitter is $0.10 per pin per glitter colour.

Timing is separate again. Six weeks ahead of your date carries no delivery or rush charge; four weeks adds a $40 delivery charge; three weeks adds $40 plus a $75 rush fee. The pins are manufactured in China and are subject to US import tariffs, disclosed on the quote rather than at invoice.

For a price that applies to your order, send your quantity, size and in-hands date and we will quote it.

Sourced — Quoted ladders and fee schedule across the AP Pope, Corona Avengers and Brainerd AHA threads, 2025–2026