Project record
780 pins and a spinner for an 11U team out of Waxahachie
A North Texas 11U team's spinner order — 780 pins at two inches, and the longest proof conversation in this collection.
Waxahachie · TX · Dallas-Fort Worth
- Quantity
- 780 pins
- Size
- 2.0"
Gallery
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The brief
A North Texas 11U team, 780 pins and a spinner — the longest design conversation in the baseball set.
How the design got made
- Beat 1Waxahachie, Texas — the only Texas account in the corpus
- Beat 2780 pins at 2.0 inches with a spinner element
- Beat 3Two family-side buyers active on the same thread
- Beat 453 attachments — the heaviest proof cycle of any baseball order here
The full account
Trading volume from an 11U team
Seven hundred and eighty pins at two inches, with a spinner.
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.
Why the spinner
A spinner is a separate element mounted on a rivet so it rotates in place. Usually a logo, a ball, or a central medallion.
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.
It needs to be designed in rather than added on. 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.
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" |
| Upgrades | spinner |
| Event confirmed | Not confirmed |
| City | Waxahachie |
| State | TX |
| County | Ellis County |
| Region | Dallas-Fort Worth |
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
A spinner is a separate element mounted on a rivet so it rotates in place — usually a logo, a puck, or a ball. It reads as a fidget as much as a badge, which is exactly why players trade for them.
On a 2.5-inch soft enamel order, adding a spinner moved the price from $3.44 to $4.09 per pin at 250 pieces — about 65 cents. That team 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