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Trading sports team or tournament pins is considered a very normal part of any tournament or sports game. This exchange of pins used to take place between sportsmen from various competing nations but today these trading pins are exchanged by fans. Collection of sports pins has been an age old hobby and it first started during the early Olympic Games. At major sporting events like these, collectors from all over the world would gather and look to exchange or buy and sell pins of their favorite sporting events, countries or teams.

Baseball pins were first in the form of press pins. They were made for The World Series in 1911. After a gap of about 27 years these press pins were made of the "annual mid season exhibition". These press pins were name label pins whereby the members of the press could enter the press box. These pins were big and they were made in a lavish ways. After the First World War and all the cost cutting which followed, these pins were reduced in size. From 1964 onwards, professional trading pins manufacture companies came into existence. Sports teams started ordering these pins along with their team uniform and other sports equipment and gear.

In this day and age of the internet, collectors no longer gather in huge numbers at major sports events to exchange and buy pins. Today even the pins and their trade or exchange has gone online. You can trade your trading pin or even buy and sell them via the internet thanks to avenues for these exchanges. Exchange of these mementos has been going on for a very long time and collectors who are very passionate about collecting pins will pay any amount of money for the pins that they do not own.