Category: Northwest League

Grays Harbor Mets

February 2, 2021

The Grays Harbor Mets were a short-season Class A farm team of the New York Mets that lasted for one season in Hoquiam, Washington during the summer of 1979. Formerly a non-affiliated club known as the Grays Harbor Loggers, the team took on the “Mets” identity after signing a Player Development Contract with New York for the 1979 season. But the marriage was an unhappy one. When New York pulled out at the end of 1979, Grays Harbor returned to independent status and went back to the Loggers name for their final season in 1980.

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Tri-City Atoms Northwest League

Tri-City Atoms (1965-1968)

September 23, 2020

This second edition of the Tri-City Atoms baseball team represented the cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco, Washington in the Northwest League during the mid/late 1960’s. An earlier Tri-City entry in the Northwest League was also named the Atoms during the summer of 1961. The team derived its name from the region’s proximity to the Hanford Site, the infamous top secret U.S. government plutonium production facility of the Manhattan Project, which created the nuclear material used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945

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Victoria Mussels Northwest League Baseball

Victoria Mussels

May 23, 2020

The Victoria Mussels were a British Columbia-based independent minor league baseball team for two summers in 1979 and 1980. The Mussels completed in the Class A Northwest League, which was home to several other independent (non-Major League affiliated) clubs at the time. Pitchers Tom Candiotti and Dale Mohorcic ultimately both advanced from the Mussels to the Major Leagues.

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Bellingham Mariners Northwest League

Bellingham Mariners

February 22, 2020

Formed in November 1976, the Bellingham Mariners were the first full minor affiliate announced by the new Seattle Mariners expansion team in the American League. Bellingham, Washington sits on the coastline of Washington State, 90 minutes north of Seattle and 90 minutes south of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Baby M’s produced two future Hall-of-Famers – Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez – during their 18 seasons as a Seattle farm club. The Seattle/Bellingham partnership ended following the 1994 season.

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