Baseball Pins for Dummy Collectors

1980 Winter Olympics pin

Our research team members come up with really weirdest crap at times, but perhaps the best of the best (or is it worst of the worst?) are the content-farm posts freelancing non-English speakers have cobbled together in a desperate attempt to pick up a few US dollars. We've already featured one of them, an EzineArticles.com contributor using the pseudonym Mary Riverstone (perhaps really someone named Greeshma Justin) – and she's back for her third appearance with "Baseball Trading Pins - The Color of Enthusiasm and Spirit!"

Truth be told, no one around here had ever heard of baseball pins before, and a google search on the phrase turned up about 95K results. That's as opposed to 618 million hits for "baseball cards," for whatever it's worth. Anyway, Greeshma/Mary seemed incredibly enthusiastic about them – odd for someone living in a country where no one plays baseball, eh? But let's see what she has to say before she sends her readers to a defunct Yahoo Pulse site. Here's Greeshma's opening salvo

"Have you been to any baseball tournament? It's a happy, sporty and youthful game with enthusiasm, and spirit flowing all over the stadium. A baseball stadium is also called as the baseball park or the ball park."

It's pretty obvious Riverstone has never tried to buy World Series tickets, not to mention that there's probably more overpriced beer "flowing all over the stadium" than spirit... Justin goes on to inform his/her/its readers that, "What is a baseball trading pin? It is an identity, or a pin that can be attached to their attire, which is used by the team players as well." We're pretty certain that baseball has rules about what you can "attach to [your] attire" on the field. Maybe they leave the pins in their lockers? In the dugout? Who knows? Mary / Greeshma continues to extol the virtues of baseball pins, telling us that, "The youth and the kids love to collect their favorite team's pins. Base ball [sic] pin collection is a hobby for many. It started as a simple love for the game, and toad [sic] is a hobby and business for a number of people. Some people restrict to collecting junta single type or design or team's pin."

First, we aren't sure what she thinks is the difference between youth and kids; second, we don't think we've ever heard of baseball pin collecting (though that doesn't mean it doesn't exist in, perhaps, Japan); and third, WTF is "junta single type" supposed to mean? "Just a single type," perhaps? So finally, Mary left us with these words of wisdom:

"The trading pins are used in all games like swimming, tennis, badminton, or football, basketball etc. It came into existence in 1980 when the Olympic Games were conducted in New York. The use of these trading pins came into being since ethane, and today baseball games flaunt these pins the most."

Yeah, there were Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, in 1980, but none of those sports were played there (they're summer sports, Mary, except football – that's not an Olympic sport). And WTF is that "ethane" business, anyway?

While we're quite sure that there are commemorative pins for many a sporting event, including the Olympics, World Series, Stanley Cup, NCAA and NBA championships... we're also quite sure that there is no enormous collecting community out there and kids do not, as Mary claims,

"...sport these on their denim jackets or leather jackets for the sporty and youthful, peppy look."

In other words, our Dumbass of the Day just made this crap up. Then again, maybe cricket pins are huge in India?

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