The California League can end its long time in modesto, but is ready to remain professional baseball.
Independent Pioneer League, John Thurman is interacting to form a team in the field, which is the current home of Modesto Nuts.
In a closed session on Tuesday, Modesto City Council discussed the possible terms of a lease as part of a conversation between City Manager and Pioneer League President Michael Shapiro. The council did not take any action on Tuesday, nor Shapiro nor the city spokesperson immediately returned the message seeking comments.
Modesto’s California League History 1946 dates – John Thurman Field opened in 1955 – but the nuts are down in their last three houses.
After negotiations for the collapse of a renovated stadium and a new lease, the team was sold in the last December and will move to San Bernardino in the next season, part of the California League shuffle that contains the doors affiliated to a new ballpark in Ontario.
A modesto team will give the league two new teams next year and 14 in 14; Leagues for scheduling purposes prefer a similar number of teams.
The second new team will play in the long beach, which will be the first entry of the city in an independent league since 2009.
On Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council unanimously approved an expansion with the Pioneer League team to carry forward an agreement, which will share the historic Blair Field with Long Beach State Basball Program.
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement, “A team in the long beach is the opportunity to show what the long beach makes: Our diversity, our passion and our community spirit.”
Paul Freedman, the co-founder of the Pioneer League’s Oklaland Ballers, will be one of the owners of the long beach team. Regarding ballrs last year, in the story of a time and how they were filling the baseball zero made in Oklaland from the departure of athletics, Freedman had already kept an eye on long beach.
Freedman said, “I think there should be a pioneer league team in the long middle.” “Long Beach is my unique identity. If I am from Long Beach, I should not be told that I want to be a dose or angel fan.”
