Project record
780 spinner pins for an 11U team out of Waxahachie
A North Texas 11U team ordered 780 spinner pins at two inches — the longest proof conversation in this collection.
Waxahachie · TX · Dallas-Fort Worth
- Quantity
- 780 pins
- Size
- 2.0"
- Pin type
- Spinner pins
The brief
A North Texas 11U team, 780 spinner pins — the longest design conversation in the baseball set.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
Waxahachie, Texas — the only Texas account in the corpus
- Beat 2
780 spinner pins at 2.0 inches
- Beat 3
Two family-side buyers active on the same thread
- Beat 4
53 attachments — the heaviest proof cycle of any baseball order here
The full account
Trading volume from an 11U team
Seven hundred and eighty spinner pins at two inches.
That number tells you what this order is for. A roster is a dozen kids. Seven hundred and eighty pins is a team that expects to trade — heavily, for several days, with a lot of other teams.
What a spinner pin is
A spinner pin is built with a central element mounted on a rivet so it rotates in place — usually a logo, a ball, or a medallion. It is a construction type, not something added on afterwards, which is why it is quoted at a different per-pin price rather than as a one-off charge.
It does two things at a trading table. It makes the pin something to fiddle with rather than just look at, and it makes it visibly different from the flat pins around it. Kids trade for the one that moves.
The rotating element needs solid metal around its anchor point, which is why it works on chunky central shapes and fails on thin outlying ones. That constraint has to be settled at design stage, before tooling.
The longest conversation here
This order carried the heaviest proof cycle of any baseball job in this collection, with two family-side buyers active on the same thread throughout.
That's not a warning. Long proof cycles usually mean a team that cares, and every round happens while the file is still open and changes are free. The expensive revisions are the ones that arrive after the die is cut.
Specification
| Team | 11U Flying Chanclas |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Quantity | 780 |
| Size | 2.0" |
| Pin type | Spinner pins |
| City | Waxahachie |
| State | TX |
| County | Ellis County |
| Region | Dallas-Fort Worth |
Reference material on file — logos and flat artwork, not steps in the story
The banner threshold
This order sat under the threshold, so no banner was included. At the time the line fell at 1,000 pins at 2.0 inches or larger: the size step cost $0.20 more per pin — $1.07 to $1.27 — and brought a free 3ft × 6ft banner plus 100 bonus gold-metal or blackout pins with it.
Worth checking before you commit to a quantity: the bigger pin is frequently the cheaper total order.
quoted for this order onlyAbout the prices on this page
Every figure here is taken from a real quote for a real order. That is the point of it — and also the reason it will not match what you are quoted.
- Quantity moves the price more than anything else
- Size and build are priced separately
- Turnaround changes the total
- Import tariffs apply and are disclosed on the quote
- These are historical
Questions this order answers
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
Two inches or larger is the working floor for tournament trading — smaller pins get passed over. Sizes run from 2 inches up to 6.
One little league's four orders across three years show the migration in practice: they started at 1.25 inches and moved to 2.0. Larger sizes also unlock the banner threshold, which is why the bigger pin often costs less in total.
Sourced — Sizing guidance across multiple orders; Northern Virginia little league, 2022–2026
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
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