Project record
Four orders, three seasons, and a buyer who handed it off
A Northern Virginia little league has ordered four times since 2022 — including twice in one year — and the person doing the buying changed partway through.
Burke · VA · Northern Virginia
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The brief
Four orders, three years, and two different people doing the buying — a little league account that outlived the person who opened it.
How the design got made
- Beat 12022: two separate orders in a single season, one at 1.25 inches and one at 2.0
- Beat 22023: repeat at 1.25 inches, holding the same $1.20 unit price as the year before
- Beat 3A gap through 2024 and 2025
- Beat 42026: returns at 2.0 inches with an entirely new buyer
- Beat 5The size migration from 1.25 to 2.0 tracks TPC's own sizing guidance across four orders
The full account
The deepest account here
Four separate orders. Three seasons. Two different people signing off.
- 2022, first order — 1.25″, around 700 pins
- 2022, second order — same season, stepped up to 2.0″
- 2023 — back to 1.25″, holding the same per-pin price as the year before
- 2026 — returns at 2.0″, with a completely different buyer
Two orders in one season
The 2022 pair is the interesting one. A league orders once, and then orders again inside the same year at a larger size. That's not a mistake — that's a league discovering mid-season that the small pin wasn't doing the job.
The size migration
Watch the sizes across four orders and you're watching a slow argument being won.
1.25 inches is a nice pin. It is also, at a trading table, a pin that gets skipped. Two inches is the floor where kids actually stop and look. This league started small, tried larger in the same season, went back, and by 2026 was ordering exclusively at two inches.
We give that advice on the first call every time. It lands better as a receipt than as a recommendation.
The handoff
Somewhere between 2023 and 2026, the person who bought these pins stopped being the person who bought these pins. Same league, same town, entirely different contact.
That's the second pattern this collection documents. One Philadelphia program kept its account because the coach stayed. This league kept its account through a complete change of the buying role. Different mechanisms, same result: the program outlives the parent.
What makes a reorder easy
Artwork on file, and a name to reference. Whoever inherits the job doesn't need to reconstruct what was ordered last time — they need to be able to say "the same as last year, but bigger," and have that mean something.
Specification
| Team | Annandale North Springfield Little League (ANSLL) |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| City | Burke |
| State | VA |
| Region | Northern Virginia |
| Multi-year account | Yes |
The banner threshold
This order sat under the threshold, so no banner was included. The line falls at 1,000 pins at 2.0 inches or larger: at that point the size step costs $0.20 more per pin — $1.07 to $1.27 — and brings 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.
What the customer said
No publishable customer sentence exists in this order thread, so none is shown. Everything below the header on this page is drawn from the order record itself: sizes, quantities, proof rounds and dates. Nothing here is a testimonial, and we do not write one.
Questions this order answers
The account usually survives it. One Philadelphia program's 2024 and 2026 orders share exactly one jersey number between them — the roster turned over almost completely and the program kept ordering, because the same coach stayed.
A Northern Virginia little league went further: the person doing the buying changed entirely between 2023 and 2026, and the account continued anyway. Keeping artwork files on record is what makes the second order faster than the first.
Sourced — Anderson Monarchs 2024/2026; ANSLL 2022–2026
Say so up front. Artwork is kept on file, so a repeat order can start from your existing design instead of a blank page, and a reorder that reuses the same die skips the mould charge.
Several accounts here have ordered across two, three and four seasons — and reference to a previous pin is often the fastest way to explain what you want.
Sourced — Multiple repeat accounts, 2022–2026
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
Yes. One Northern Virginia little league has ordered four times across three seasons, including twice in a single year.
Sourced — ANSLL, 2022–2026