Long Beach’s new minor league baseball team has narrowed its field of possible names to six after receiving more than 1,300 submissions from across the city, team officials said Wednesday.

The six semi-finalists are Long Beach Coast, Long Beach Cruisers, Long Beach Grit, Long Beach Groove, Long Beach Parrots and Long Beach Regulators.

Fans will also have a say in narrowing the field even further, with another round of voting beginning Wednesday and concluding at 11:59 p.m. Oct. 15.

Following the close of voting, the team — currently called the Long Beach Baseball Club — will undertake a comprehensive review to determine the finalists, after which another round of voting will take place from Oct. 22-29. Once that process is complete, the team will commission the design of a new logo and

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