USSSA order
One pin, every age group: a club design built to outlast the season
A California club asked for the opposite of what most teams want — no year, no age group, no state. One design the whole program could use.
Antelope Valley · CAUSSSA International World Series confirmed
- Quantity
- 1,000 pins
- Size
- 2.0"
Gallery
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The brief
A club that wanted one pin every age group could use — and got the clearest demonstration in the archive of why the bigger pin costs less.
How the design got made
- Beat 1Two separate teams ordered inside the same 2025 season, with different parents buying
- Beat 2Customer asked for a deliberately generic club pin: 'No need to include 2025 or 8u or California… a generic Antelope Valley Coyotes pin would be best for us'
- Beat 3The rep asked the event question directly, and the answer was USSSA IWS, not Cooperstown
- Beat 4Both banner tiers quoted side by side: $1.07 at 1.75 inches with nothing, $1.27 at 2.0 with a banner and 100 bonus pins
- Beat 5Three years of orders across three different buying parents
The full account
The request nobody else makes
Almost every team wants their pin to say exactly who they are this season: the year, the age group, the state, the roster. This club wanted none of it.
"No need to include 2025 or 8u or California. We are hoping to use this design for all of our age groups so a generic Antelope Valley Coyotes pin would be best for us."
That's a program thinking past July. A dated pin is a keepsake of one trip. An undated one is club identity — order it once, use it across every team, reorder it next year off the same die without paying to redraw anything.
Where they were trading
Asked what event the pins were for, the answer was specific:
"We are trading at the USSSA International World Series."
Worth stating plainly because the paperwork on this job says Cooperstown, and it wasn't Cooperstown. USSSA runs its own major tournaments and they draw the same trading culture — the pins matter just as much, and the volume is just as high.
The size decision, quoted in the open
At a thousand pins the customer was shown both options side by side:
| 1.75 inch | 2.0 inch | |
|---|---|---|
| Per pin | $1.07 | $1.27 |
| Banner | — | Free 3ft × 6ft |
| Bonus pins | — | 100 gold or blackout |
Twenty cents a pin. Two hundred dollars across the order. That buys a banner and a hundred extra pins, and the larger size is the one that trades better anyway.
Put like that, it stops being an upsell and starts being arithmetic.
Three years, three parents
This club has come back across three seasons, and the person placing the order has changed more than once. Two different teams inside the program ordered in the same season with different families handling each.
That's what a generic design is really for. When the buyer changes, the design doesn't have to.
Specification
| Team | Antelope Valley Coyotes |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Quantity | 1,000 |
| Size | 2.0" |
| Event | USSSA International World Series |
| Event confirmed | Yes |
| City | Antelope Valley |
| State | CA |
| 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
USSSA events are a regular trading destination for the teams we work with, and the International World Series in particular.
Some clubs deliberately leave the event, year and age group off the pin so one design works across every team in the program. One California club asked for exactly that: a generic club pin rather than a dated one.
Sourced — Antelope Valley Coyotes, 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
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
Only if you want the design to be single-season. One club asked us to leave off the year, the age group and the state so a single pin would work across every team in the program — deliberately reusable rather than a keepsake of one trip.
The trade-off is real: dated pins are more collectible to the kids, undated pins are cheaper over time because you're not paying for new artwork every season.
Sourced — Antelope Valley Coyotes, 2025