A League Of Their Own

According to the Press Telegram, former Major League Baseball All-Star Jose Canseco will be playing professional baseball in the Los Angeles area. However, it won't be for the Dodgers or the Angels.

Canseco will be playing for the Long Beach Armada, a minor leauge team in the Golden Baseball League. He'll be playing his first game on Friday.

Here's the URL for the story; http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4017282

Before being traded to the Armada, Canseco played one game with the San Diego Surf Dogs, another team in the GBL. According to the article, he requested to be moved to a team closer to Los Angeles, hence the trade.

One wonders if this his attempt to get back into the Major Leagues, or is he just playing because he loves the game? That reminds me of a year or two when Dennis Rodman was playing for the Long Beach Jam to try and get back into the NBA. But I digress....

The Golden Baseball League is an independant baseball leauge that has teams based in the West Coast, in states such as California, Arizona and Nevada. It isn't affiliated with the MLB or with the Minor leagues. Sounds very interesting!

Before reading the article, I didn't know Long Beach had a baseball team!! After doing some further research (thanks Wikipedia!) I found out that Fullerton also has a team in the GBL, called the Flyers. They play their home games at Goodwin Field on Cal State Fullerton's campus.

I'd like to go to one of their games in the future to not only see what the league's about, but to support local talent. Is there anyone who wants to go with me? If so, let's make a date!!