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Long Beach Barracudas

Minor League Baseball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6672274 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Long Beach Barracudas were a minor league baseball team located in Long Beach, California. The team played in the independent Western Baseball League and was not affiliated with any Major League Baseball team. Their home stadiums were Long Beach State's 49er Field and Blair Field.

The Barracudas were founded in 1995, but changed name to the Long Beach Riptide in 1996. After the 1996 season the team relocated to Mission Viejo, California as the Mission Viejo Vigilantes.

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The public source identifies “Long Beach Barracudas” as minor League Baseball team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Long, Beach and Barracudas.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Long, Beach and Barracudas providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6672274. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Long Beach Barracudas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.