Along with virtually each and every sport in the world baseball has its share of collectors. Fans of the game who collect memorabilia. The sort of thing they collect varies widely, from autographed baseballs to ticket stubs, you name it and there\'s in all probability an individual somewhere who collects it and has a fine collection which they display with pride.

One item which is widely collected by baseball fans is the pin, as soon as these pins were traded by coaches and players, nowadays it seems every single little league team can have their own custom pin produced for them at pretty low cost. That means there\'s a whole world of baseball pins to trade and collect.

Theses pins come in a bewildering selection of styles, with an equally bewildering range of descriptive terms. Danglers, sliders, bobble heads, spinners, blinkies. It can surely be confusing if you\'re not a pin collector or trader.

Danglers are fundamentally a pin with a smaller pin attached to it with jump rings so the smaller pin literally \"dangles\" beneath the larger pin. Sliders are developed by forming the larger pin with a hole or slot cut out of it and the smaller pin is fixed by way of the slot so it does in reality slide across the front of the larger pin.

Bobble head pins are once again a two part pin. The larger pin is typically developed as the body of a baseball player and the smaller component of the pin is developed as the head of the player and attached to the larger pin with a spring so that it \"bobbles\". Spinners are made by attaching a modest pin through a hole in the larger pin so that the smaller one is free to spin around. Blinkies are just what the name suggests, they have a built in light which flashes or \"blinks\". The light is a tiny LED which is powered by a modest battery fixed in the back of the pin along with an on/off switch. The flashing LED is regularly fixed in place of an eye in the character depicted on the pin, or it might possibly be utilised to show the location of the team\'s residence town on a map.

Baseball lapel pins can be finished with various sort of colours such as glitter which catches the light attractively and may be employed just to highlight the name of the team. Translucent colours allow the shiny polished metal of the pin to show by means of and reflect the light. You can even choose to have some fluorescent or \"glow in the dark\" color on your pin.

Baseball trading pins are an appealing fairly economical collector\'s item, you can even get unique collectors bags to store and safeguard you pins. These are real handy if you travel to games or collectors fairs to trade pins.