Long Beach Armada
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Arizona Summer League (2010–11) Arizona Winter League (2011) |
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| Location | Long Beach, California | ||||
| Ballpark | Blair Field (Long Beach, California) | ||||
| Year founded | 2005 | ||||
| Year disbanded | 2012 | ||||
| League championships | 0 | ||||
| Division championships | 1 (2007) | ||||
| Former name(s) | Long Beach Armada (2005–2012) | ||||
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| Colors | Navy blue, brown, red, white |
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| Ownership | Diamond Sports & Entertainment | ||||
The Long Beach Armada were an independent professional baseball team based in Long Beach, California, in the United States. The Armada was a member of the North Division of the now-defunct Golden Baseball League, which was not affiliated with either Major League Baseball or Minor League Baseball. From the 2005 season to the present, the Armada has played its home games at Blair Field.
The Armada fielded a team for the Arizona Summer League in 2010 months after suspending GBL operations. They would later field a team in the Arizona Winter League in 2011. The franchise has been owned by Diamond Sports & Entertainment, primary investors in the current North American League (NAL), since 2005.
The team has had 13 different players, during its first five seasons, that played at the major league level. In addition, 21 Long Beach Armada players have had their contracts purchased by major league organizations over the last five years.
The team was one of the original eight GBL charter teams that began play in 2005 along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the traveling Japan Samurai Bears. They began play in May 2005, three years after their predecessors, the Long Beach Breakers folded along with the Western Baseball League. Ironically, former Armada manager Steve Yeager managed the Breakers to the WBL Championship in 2001, that team's inaugural season, beating the Chico Heat 3 games to 2.
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