It still needs a nickname, players and a coaching staff. But the Longview-Kelso team that will become the ninth collegiate baseball franchise in the West Coast League in the summer of 2010 confirmed that it has something very important at sun-splashed David Story Field on Sunday. A home.

Wood-bat baseball in the late Sunday afternoon sun ... does it get any better than that?

This time next summer, the yet-to-be-nicknamed Longview-Kelso entry in the West Coast League will be in the middle of its first season, playing its home games at David Story Field. For fans desiring a future glance into the crystal baseball, the league is providing an early taste of its product this weekend.

A former assistant general manager for two independent league teams in California has been selected as the general manager of the new West Coast League baseball team that begins play in Longview-Kelso next summer.

Black Bears owner announces Grant Wilson as team's first General Manager.