KTLA - CEO and founder of the Long Beach Baseball Club, Paul Freedman and former MLB player and homegrown Long Beach native, Chase d'Arnaud to talk about the team and what the community can expect. Plus, they make a big reveal of the 6 semifinalist names from the naming contest.

Signal Tribune - Before the Long Beach Baseball Club (LBBC) can take the field for its potential inaugural season, the team needs an official name. Fortunately for local residents, LBBC has extended its team-naming contest…

Complex - Warren G plans to grace his hometown of Long Beach with a minor league baseball team.

TMZ - Warren G has proudly onboarded as a co-owner of a newly minted minor league baseball team and the best part is it's in his hometown city of Long Beach, California!

KTLA - Mount up at the plate. West Coast hip-hop icon Warren G has been named as a co-owner of a minor league baseball team headed to Long Beach.

Long Beach Watchdog - The minor league club is negotiating for the shared use of Blair Field beginning next year and recently enlisted the community to help name the team.

LAist - Calling all baseball fans, the folks behind what's currently known as the Long Beach Baseball Club want community members to help name the city’s next minor league team.

Long Beach Post - Long Beach’s new minor league baseball team wants your help coming up with its name.

The562.org - The Long Beach Baseball Club launched its team-naming contest today for the new independent professional baseball team coming to Long Beach in 2026.

Signal Tribune - Local baseball fans may soon have a new team to root for in their own backyard, as Long Beach is entering discussions to become the latest city with a Pioneer League team. 

The562.org - The Long Beach City Council unanimously approved the effort to bring a new independent professional baseball team to the city on Tuesday, including a collaboration between the Long Beach Baseball Club and Long Beach State to make Bohl Diamond at Blair Field its home. The team aims to begin play in the 2026 season, which would begin next May.

Long Beach Post - The Long Beach City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of pursuing an agreement that would bring a minor league team, preliminarily named the Long Beach Baseball Club, to play its three-month spring season at Cal State Long Beach’s Blair Field on the edge of Recreation Park

The562.org - The Long Beach City Council will meet on Tuesday to consider approving the arrival of a new independent professional baseball team that aims to begin play on Bohl Diamond at Blair Field in the 2026 season.

LA Times - On Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council is scheduled to consider whether to order city staff to work toward an agreement with the ownership group for a “new professional baseball team” that would play at Blair Field, the city’s storied ballpark.