I remember being ten like it was yesterday. I was the tomboy trying to fit in, struggling to figure it all out. But if I could go back and do it all over again, I’d hope to find a place like Moxi waiting for me—a humble storefront in a beachfront city with a diverse staff of coaches and teachers encouraging me to get on some roller skates and feel the freedom of gliding on wheels.

When the Olympics begin in London this weekend, a record number of 32 athletes with Long Beach ties will be competing in everything from basketball to volleyball to track and field. But as a city associated with the water, it is fitting that there are more local members of the 2012 USA Olympic Water Polo Teams than there are participating in every other sport besides volleyball.

Professional–or semi-professional or want-to-be professional baseball–has a long history in the City of Long Beach and it looks possible that pro baseball will be making another “splash” by next year. But in order to better understand how America’s pasttime fits into summers at Blair Field, a short historical tour might be useful.

Armada rehash be damned. Long Beach’s ill-fated pro baseball history will begin an entirely new chapter next summer when a freshly pressed independent league and another hometown team rolls in to town.

Next in a series of LBSU Media Relations interviews with Niner Coaches is the following visit with Laura Freimuth who enters her fourth year as an assistant coach for Jody Wynn and the women’s basketball team.