2018 Little League World Series Pin Pickups

Posted on August 20, 2018 by sportscardinfo

All eyes are on Williamsport, PA for the next week as the Little League World Series takes place. Baseball fans from all over the world have made their way to Williamsport. Hotels are booked. Restaurants are packed. Parking lots are full. And pins have become the next best thing to currency. Pins are all over the place. They’ve got commemorative pins made for everything.

While the Little League World Series is going on, I usually pick a day to go up and look around their campus. There is always a lot happening. I’m a big pin collector. I’ve got lanyards full of them. Over the last few years I’ve found it a bit more difficult to score free pins from the corporate sponsors. This is mainly due to you having to register with an electronic bracelet, and use all types of cell phone apps. Perhaps that stuff is all great for the kids, but for an older pin collector like myself I find it to be an inconvenience. Luckily, I take a handful of my Sports Card Info pins with me and use them to barter with these sponsors in order to get around all of that. In some cases it works, and others not.

Dunkin’ Donuts was my first stop. Little League came next. Following that was 4th Street downtown, Penn College, The Thomas T. Taber Museum, and then some more businesses on Williamsport’s Golden Strip. Pins just popup everywhere. I was able to get a lot more pins from the corporate sponsors setup at Little League than originally thought. My Sports Card Info pins really helped out.

Pin collecting at Little League is like opening a pack of cards. You don’t know what might happen. A man walked over and randomly handed me a pin. I didn’t catch his name, but I believe it was Troy Lare. He had what looked like a Little League World Series ring on. Judging by the pin, he is an umpire from Maine. Very cool find, and not something you can just pickup anywhere. I have very few umpire pins.

At the end of the day, I ended up with (24) new pins that filled up (3) lanyards.

The Phillies lost to the Mets 8-2 in this year’s MLB Little League Classic. Next year’s MLB Little League Classic takes place on 8/18/19 between the Pirates and Cubs.

I’d really like to see Topps have a corporate booth at Little League. It seems like a perfect fit. Hopefully someday they can work something out. Topps could have pins, special cards, make your own baseball card, and perhaps bring in a big league player to sign autographs.

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