{"id":131922,"date":"2026-01-13T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/131922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:31:08","slug":"hall-of-fame-spotlight-abe-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/131922\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fame Spotlight: Abe Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Our spotlights continue in advance of the 2026 induction class for the Long Beach State Athletics Hall of Fame as we take a look at Abe Alvarez from Baseball.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbe Alvarez is one of the greatest pitchers in Dirtbags history. The all-time winningest lefthander in school history with a 23-5 overall record, Alvarez dominated the Big West for two seasons, earning back-to-back Pitcher of the Year awards in 2002 and 2003 and joining Jered Weaver in a dominant 2003 rotation as he was named an All-American for the second straight season. He went on to a professional career, winning a World Series ring with the Boston Red Sox in 2004, and has returned to Long Beach State as an assistant coach with the program beginning this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJoin us for a memorable evening on Wednesday, January 21 as we induct the 2026 Hall of Fame Class. The ceremony will be held at the Long Beach Airport Marriott beginning at 6 p.m. Purchase your tickets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/HOFtickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.longbeachstate.com\/HOFtickets<\/a> or contact Assistant Director of Special Events <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/news\/2026\/1\/13\/mailto:Jace.Pardon@csulb.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jace Pardon<\/a> for more information.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Our spotlights continue in advance of the 2026 induction class for the Long Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-131922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}