In our society gold symbolizes and indeed is coined as value in many things. For this reason sports trophies and awards are usually made of gold to symbolize the top achievement. This precious metals theme continues with silver and bronze being awarded for second and third place finishes. This has evolved further to include lower place finishes and participation trophies.
These sports trophy awards are now more often distinguished by size and engraved plates.
This has allowed cheap trophies to be given for any sport or event.
Baseball trophies are most noted for the figure fixed atop with a swinging batter. The figure of a player used can be either male or female and dressed accordingly. When baseball trophies are given at an awards ceremony where the winner’s name, place of finish and gender are already established, such gender specific baseball trophies are perfect. But what do occasions where a trophy is awarded at the exact moment of victory. For these situations most sports, including baseball offer trophies with a figure related to the exact sport affixed. For baseball this can be a plated or painted figure of a baseball glove, or a molded baseball itself. Often a bat and ball motif is mounted on the familiar baseball diamond, so there is no mistaking the game that was played.