Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia
Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia
Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia
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Long Beach Grand PrixThe Long Beach Grand Prix in April is the single largest event in Long Beach. It startedin 1975 as a Formula 5000 race on the streets of downtown, and became a Formula Onethe following year. Since 1984 it has been a Champ Car event. During the same week asthe Grand Prix, there are also Trans-Am, and Toyota Atlantic races, plus an HistoricGrand Prix features pre-1990 cars, and the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race. The Toyota Celicawas often used as race cars in the Pro/Celebrity Race from late 1970s to 2005, andreplaced by Scion tC in 2006. The Celica All-trac Turbo was a Pace Car in the GrandPrix of Long Beach from 1988 to 1992.BaseballLong Beach Little League teams that included Sean Burroughs were back-to-back WorldSeries Champions in 1992 & 1993. Other noted Long Beach ballplayers include TonyGwynn and Bob Lemon.The Long Beach Armada of the independent Golden Baseball League plays at BlairField. Ex-Major Leaguer Darrell Evans manages the team that features former majorleague players as well as rookies looking to reach the Majors for the first time.Blair Field (built in 1958) has hosting numerous American Legion baseball, ConnieMack baseball, high school, junior college, college, minor league baseball and majorleague spring training exhibition baseball games. It has also been host of six MTV Rock& Jock softball games, and has been the filming location for numerous film, TV andcommercial productions. [12]Ice HockeyLong Beach is home to the Long Beach Ice Dogs (ECHL) hockey team. The Ice Dogsplay their home games at the Long Beach Sports Arena.Basketball