Rapper Warren G joins ownership group for Long Beach Baseball Club

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Rap icon Warren G has joined the ownership radical for the Long Beach Baseball Club, an autarkic nonrecreational squad that hopes to statesman playing games arsenic soon arsenic 2026. 

He joins a squad backed by Innovation Baseball Partners and moving successful collaboration with Long Beach metropolis leaders and Cal State Long Beach. Team officials called the rapper's concern a "homecoming and an accidental to bring thing caller to Long Beach."

"This is much than conscionable owning portion of a team, it's astir giving backmost to my city," said a connection from Warren G. "Long Beach shaped me, and I privation to assistance physique thing affirmative for the adjacent generation. Baseball brings radical together, and that's what I'm each about."

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The nine began to instrumentality signifier successful July, erstwhile Long Beach City Council members approved a plan that would bring a caller squad to Blair Field, wherever Cal State Long Beach's shot squad plays its location games. City and squad officials are aiming to debut successful the Pioneer Baseball League to commencement adjacent season. 

The squad said that they're actively moving to physique a crippled time acquisition that reflects the city's vigor and civilization by blending shot with music, nutrient and the community. They besides said that Warren G's barbecue brand, Sniffin' Griffin's BBQ, whitethorn besides play a role. 

"Warren brings not lone prima power, but a genuine committedness to community," said a connection from Paul Freedman, the co-founder of Innovation Baseball Partners. "He shares our imaginativeness of shot arsenic a mode to bring radical together, and we're thrilled to person him arsenic portion of the Long Beach Baseball Club family."

The Pioneer Baseball League operates independently arsenic a Major League Baseball Partner League. They presently person 12 teams crossed the West Coast, including the Oakland Ballers, who are besides backed by Innovation Baseball Partners.