Blair Field seen wide from the third base side, empty blue seats under the grandstand roof

Long Beach · 25 July 2026

An afternoon at Blair Field

Q: Do you cover sports as well as club and corporate events?

Yes. A game day is a venue, a run of show, partners with signage, and a crowd — the same set of problems as a gala or a tournament. Clubhouse Creative works across country clubs, corporate events and sporting venues around Long Beach and greater Los Angeles.

The Long Beach Coast, playing as the Regulators. Forty-five frames from an empty ballpark at one o'clock to the last of the crowd at six.

Date: 25 July 2026
Venue: Blair Field, Long Beach
Club: Long Beach Coast
Frames: 45 of 131
Camera: Canon EOS R6 Mark II

Before the gates

Blair Field about an hour out. Steel, shade and a lot of empty blue seats waiting, with the Coast's own marks already up on the padding and the outfield wall.

The outfield sign reading Long Beach, this is your team — welcome to the LBC — DK4A4708

Outfield sponsor boards and the bullpen bar along the right field line — DK4A4701

The Long Beach Coast roundel on teal padding behind home plate — DK4A4706

A Long Beach Regulators plaque mounted on the concourse wall — DK4A4719

Concourse signage and shade under the Blair Field grandstand — DK4A4724

Groundwork

The part nobody buys a ticket for. Grounds crew drag the infield, coaches walk the mound, the team lines up for the anthem. On a promo day the Coast play as the Regulators, and the whole park changes name with them.

Grounds crew dragging the infield dirt before first pitch — 1A7A1414

The infield drag seen wide, with the Long Beach Coast outfield wall behind — 1A7A1418

Coaches talking on the mound during warm-ups — DK4A4743

A pre-game ceremony with the videoboard lit behind the infield — DK4A4746

The team lined up along the baseline before first pitch — DK4A4749

A coach walking the line as the team waits — DK4A4750

III

From the mound

Three hours of afternoon baseball in flat July light. The pitching is where the frames are — front foot down, arm through, the ball already gone.

A Regulators pitcher at release, the batter waiting out of focus in the foreground — 1A7A1466

Delivery from the third base side with the outfield wall behind — 1A7A1783

A pitcher follows through in front of the Long Beach Coast wall — 1A7A2950

Arm through, front side firm, seen down the first base line — 1A7A2961

A right-hander at full extension in the afternoon light — 1A7A3389

A pitcher mid-delivery with the empty grandstand beyond — 1A7A3928

At the plate

The other half of every pitch. Bat speed reads better from the side than from behind the plate, so most of these were shot from down the line.

A batter makes contact, bat bending through the zone — 1A7A3552

A left-handed swing with the Regulators board behind the backstop — 1A7A3363

Catcher and batter in the dust after a swing — 1A7A3690

A catcher framed tight behind the plate, mask on — 1A7A3749

A runner rounds first as the videoboard shows the catcher's player card — 1A7A1980

A hitter waits on deck beside the Long Beach Coast roundel — 1A7A2141

A swing and the ball off the bat down the third base line — 1A7A2010

Ninety feet

Baserunning is the part of the game that photographs like a sport rather than a sequence of still poses. Slides, leads, and the long run into the corner.

A runner slides into the plate as the catcher takes the throw — 1A7A3904

A runner rounds third past the Jered Weaver Bullpen sign — 1A7A2864

A player takes his lead off first base — 1A7A2673

A runner breaks for second as the infield turns — 1A7A2630

Number 22 running the bases in the red road uniform — 1A7A3701

An infielder fields and turns toward the bag — 1A7A2923

The board

A first-year franchise puts its partners where the crowd is already looking. Bryson Financial sits above the videoboard and on the outfield wall; FTRS Training Center, TMO and the credit union run the boards between innings. Player cards go up with headshots between at-bats.

The videoboard reading Welcome to Long Beach Regulators Baseball under a Bryson Financial header — 1A7A1372

A pre-game tribute playing on the videoboard beneath the Bryson Financial sign — 1A7A1422

A player card for a Regulators infielder on the Bryson Financial videoboard — 1A7A3412

A player card on the board with the line score below — 1A7A3515

The scoreboard and outfield boards seen across the diamond — 1A7A3731

A batter at the plate with the Regulators outfield board behind him — 1A7A3211

VII

The bleachers

Small crowd, loud crowd. The mascot works the rows behind the dugout and the families down the first base line stay to the last out — which, on an afternoon like this one, is the whole point of a ballpark in the middle of a city park.

A woman on her feet cheering in the grandstand — 1A7A3329

A man in the stands with both arms up after a play — 1A7A3323

Fans standing in the blue seats behind the plate — 1A7A3065

Spectators watching from the shade of the grandstand — 1A7A3319

The mascot leaning into the crowd behind the netting — 1A7A2095

The mascot working the rows with fans reaching in — DK4A4875

The mascot close up, a small hand on its beak — DK4A4790

Hands up in the stands as the mascot passes through — DK4A4881

A ballpark is a venue before it is a scoreboard.

Blair Field sits inside Recreation Park, a few blocks from the water. The Long Beach Coast took it over for their first season, dressing it in their own marks and, on promotional days, playing under the Regulators name instead of their own.

This was a Saturday afternoon in late July, first pitch just after three. I shot it on a media pass across about three hours — the park before the gates opened, the grounds crew, the game itself, the partner boards, and the people in the seats.

The frames that tend to matter most to a club are not always the ones on the field. A partner who takes a night at the ballpark wants to see their name where the crowd was already looking, and their people enjoying it. That is what most of chapter six and chapter seven are.

Working a game day.

Do you cover sports as well as club and corporate events?

Yes. The overlap is larger than it looks — a game day is a venue, a run of show, partners with signage, and a crowd, which is the same set of problems as a gala or a tournament. Clubhouse Creative works across country clubs, corporate events and sporting venues around Long Beach and greater Los Angeles.

What does sponsor or partner coverage actually involve?

Photographing the activation rather than only the action — signage in frame with play behind it, the videoboard, branded areas, and the partner's own guests enjoying the night. It gives a partnerships team something concrete to show at renewal instead of an impressions number.

How quickly are game photos delivered?

A preview selection within 48 hours and the full edited gallery within seven days. Faster same-night turnarounds for social are available as an add-on when a club needs frames up before the crowd has left the parking lot.

Where is Clubhouse Creative based?

Signal Hill, California, working across Long Beach, the South Bay, Orange County and greater Los Angeles.