Tuesday

About Ebay And Sports Charm Bracelets

The writer of the following article loves to watch sports competitions. She learned a good deal about baseball and football by watching the games that her father put on the family’s one TV, more than 40 years ago. That was well before anyone thought about searching on the Internet for information about sports charm bracelets. That was a time when the writer composed only short news articles, articles about the activities of her Girl Scout Troop. Those small articles pleased her father. He never dreamed that his daughter would one day be asked to write an article about sports charm bracelets.

An online search for information on sports charm bracelets calls up pictures of all sorts of stretch bracelets. Many of those sports charm bracelets have tiny enamel figures, figures that represent some aspect of a specific sport.

A volleyball bracelet has small, enamel volleyballs. A biking bracelet has tiny bicycles hanging from the arm band. On a snowboarding bracelet, little snowboards dangle from a stretchable band.

The makers of sports charm bracelets have made a noticeable attempt to market their bracelets. Volleyball bracelets come in a cloth pouch. Someone on a volleyball team can purchase a bracelet, and can order a pouch in a color that will match the team’s color.

Not all of the bracelets have been designed for team players. On the Internet, one can find bracelets for a drill team mother. Yet, despite the willingness of Webster to put “soccer mom” in the dictionary, one might have trouble finding a sports bracelet for a soccer mom.

There may be a future soccer mom selling an item that can be found among the online information about sports charm bracelets. That information includes a picture of a New England Patriot necklace, a necklace that is being auctioned on eBay.

Why does this writer think the seller of that Patriot necklace might be a future soccer mom? The writer has made that guess, because the seller of the necklace is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts. South Hadley is the site of Mount Holyoke College.

Mount Holyoke College started as a seminary in 1937. It was the first all female institution of higher learning in the United States. While the first graduates all became missionaries, the present-day student body includes many women who are eager to participate in sports.

Mount Holyoke does not have a football team, but it does have a field hockey team, a basket ball team and rowing crew. There are great golf players among the student body at Mount Holyoke College. The campus’ golf course once served as the site for a professional women’s golf tournament.

Of course, the necklace available on eBay might not be the property of a student at Mount Holyoke College. It might belong to someone in the South Hadley community. Maybe it is owned by a student in the marching band at South Hadley High School. If so, then eBay marketers might want to know that that high school band once marched in the Pasadena Rose Parade.

What will be the highest bid for that necklace, and what will the seller do with that money? Maybe the seller will use that money to buy a licensed sport charm.  Maybe the seller will buy the anthology Through the Eyes of Love. That anthology includes a story that was written by a woman who once attended Mount Holyoke College.