Grays Harbor Loggers

1 investor) ready to convey the Loggers to Eugene for a potential doubleheader, Richmond called off the rest of the series and awarded the Northwest League championship to Grays Harbor.

“Van Schley and TV comedian Bill Murray,” Ray Ryan wrote in the Daily World, “appeared in the deli, almost as if on cue.”"[1] In 1980, the franchise was once again the Grays Harbor Loggers for the team's last season.

In 1978 the team partnered with popular actor Bill Murray for a successful marketing stunt, one which attracted the national media spotlight.

[2] Unbeknownst to the press, the team activated him and on July 26, 1978, during a 7-4 home game win against the Victoria Mussels, and watched by the 141 fans in attendance, Murray got to pinch hit during the eighth inning.

Unfortunately, nobody recorded or took pictures of Murray's at bats, though a fictionalized account was filmed with Loggers playing the Bellingham Mariners at Olympic Stadium that was shown as a segment on the October 28, 1978 special edition of Saturday Night Live.

[11][12][13][14] Coincidentally, and curiously, on August 18, 1979, Bill Murray was invited to be a guest base coach and cheerleader for the same Victoria Mussels he faced in his first at bat.

[15] The Loggers and the Ports played at Olympic Stadium, located at 101 28th Street, Hoquiam, Washington and Pioneer Park in Aberdeen.