Cape Cod League: Paul Logan, Cotuit Kettleers Board Member and League Treasurer

Paul Logan at the park in Cotuit. (Courtesy of Paul Logan)

 

The path to the majors for any player is full of teams and stops in smaller cities. If they are lucky enough, one of those stops will be in the Cape Cod Baseball League. The premier collegiate summer baseball league where the only people who are paid are the coaches and the umpires. This 10-team league can only exist because of the hard work of volunteers. Volunteers like Paul Logan. When former players are asked about their time in the league, they will frequently say this was the best summer of their lives.

Paul Logan has spent 25 years volunteering with the Cotuit Kettleers, serving roles ranging from assistant treasurer to vice president, and treasurer. As of 2026, he was a board member and league treasurer.

Logan grew up in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston, where he played hockey, baseball, and football.1 Raised by his parents, Jim, a salesman for a trucking company, and Betty, a bookkeeper. He had three brothers: twin brother Bill, Jimmy, and the late Bob. Their parents stressed the importance of giving back to the community. Logan received his first Baseball Encyclopedia when he was 12 years old and was hooked on baseball: “It’s just the best feeling when you get a wonderful book.”

Two months shy of his 16th birthday, Logan was paralyzed in a swimming accident at a beach in Seabrook, New Hampshire. His neck snapped when he dove into an ocean wave.2

After the accident, he graduated from Chelmsford High School and attended Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a degree in finance and marketing. Logan also met his wife, Janet, at Bentley and upon graduating started his career as a corporate financial analyst.3 They have been married for 40 years and have two daughters, Kristen and Lauren, as well as two grandsons.

Logan’s older daughter, Kristen, was playing hockey in middle school and would be entering Barnstable High School in a few years with one problem: the school had a boys hockey team but not one for the girls. The main reason for that was simply lack of effort. That wouldn’t be a problem for Logan, who went forward to determine if there was enough interest from the players, raised the funds needed and even found their first coach, Kim Sullivan. The team’s inaugural season was 2003. The team won the 2007 MIAA Division 2 state championship. Kristen continues to play hockey today.

Logan calls the Cape Cod Baseball League “Americana at its best,” and describes Kettleers home park Lowell Field as “the best park in the league, a gem.” He said major-league baseball players come back to visit and say it was best summer of their lives. “That is all the thanks I need to continue to do this as long as I can.”

Former player Ron Darling (who played for Cotuit in 1980) has been a great asset for the Cape Cod Baseball League, and he routinely comes back for league events. “He has very genuine memories about playing in Cotuit,” Logan said, adding that the same goes for Cotuit alum Joe Girardi (1984); both are often promoting their time in the league.

Logan’s favorite game is Opening Day. He has missed only six Kettleers home games over the past 15 years. A visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, as a family vacation, like all family vacation plans, would have to wait until after the season ended in mid-August.

He speaks with pride about the teams of volunteers that support the 10 teams in the league: people with varied professional backgrounds including finance and business, donating their time and expertise.

It is more than just business professionals that make the league a success. The summer interns who work for and support the league in roles such as video production, broadcasting, and sports management “are just as important as the players.” Logan also praises all the volunteer host families and describes the lifelong bonds players form with their hosts. “That’s what it takes to run the Cape Cod Baseball League.”

Logan was awarded the Cape Cod League Richard “Dick” Sullivan Executive of the Year Award in 2010.4 He also volunteers with three other Cape Cod-based organizations. He is the treasurer of the Cape Cod Baseball League, a chairperson on the Barnstable Disability Commission, and a member of the Architectural Access Board Subcommittee on Regulations.

He said, “When you bump into someone wearing Cape Cod League gear, and you see it around the country, they have their stories. It’s neat.” He continued, “It’s fun to help the community. You see people from the neighborhood at games. They know you are involved. You tell them about the league. Then they go to the game. Get someone to go who has never gone before. Maybe 50 percent come back. Then maybe 20 percent become fans. That’s the fun of it. Family fun.”

ERIC CONRAD is a lifelong Red Sox fan, a SANS Faculty Fellow, and co-owner of Backshore Communications, an internet security consulting company. He is author of several information security books, lives on Peaks Island, Maine, and can be reached at ericconrad.com.

MARK MOROWCZYNSKI has been a SABR member since 2019 and, having grown up in Chicago, is a lifelong White Sox fan. He was one of the co-editors of The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders & Gamers. He currently lives in Seattle, is an information security professional by day, and has written several information security books. He can be reached at markmorow.com.

 

SOURCES

The primary source for this article was an interview between the authors and Paul Logan on December 6, 2025.

 

NOTES

1 Rob Duca, “In the Zone: Volunteer Paul Logan Makes a Difference,” Cape Cod Times, December 14, 2007: 1.

2 Duca.

3 Duca.

4 Rich Eldred, “Hall Doors Open Wide for Latest CCBL Class,” The Cape Codder, November 26, 2010: 32-33.