Actor Bill Murray quietly attended Sunday’s K-State-Kansas baseball game
Emmy Award-winning actor Bill Murray is perhaps the most famous celebrity fan of the Chicago Cubs.
But Murray loves baseball, period. Ditto for his brother, actor and writer Brian Doyle-Murray. That’s likely why the siblings quietly took in Sunday’s Sunflower Showdown baseball game in Manhattan, Kansas.
Kansas State defeated KU 4-2 and won the weekend series at Tointon Family Stadium two games to one.
Bill Murray and his brother Brian Doyle-Murray (white hat) were in Manhattan supporting K-State baseball today! https://t.co/VwH2FdxbPx pic.twitter.com/E0VGPEGf4Q
— Brad Doebele (@catfan28) May 5, 2024
I have confirmed that was indeed Bill Murray https://t.co/GVk38lTBEN
— Mitch Fortner (@MitchTheFort) May 5, 2024
— Angela Kohls (@Bork1965) May 6, 2024
He was very kind!
— Angela Kohls (@Bork1965) May 6, 2024
Like his brother, Doyle-Murray is a Cubs fan, but he also is a Royals supporter because of his wife, Tina, who was born in Emporia. She is a veterinarian who graduated from Kansas State in 2008 and has worked in Hollywood as a second director.
“I married into the Royals,” Doyle-Murray told me in 2015 while he was at Kauffman Stadium. “I have been following them very closely. I often have to flip a coin to see which recorded game we will watch, the Cubs or the Royals, because they are often on at the same time.”
Doyle-Murray also married into the K-State Wildcats. The Murrays were back in Kansas, perhaps visiting family and it was the perfect time to catch a ballgame.
KU broadcaster Brian Hanni snapped a selfie with Bill Murray and shared it on X.
The old baseball adage is, “You see something new every time you come to the park.” Today that something new was Bill Murray.
I knew Bill was a big baseball guy but never expected to run into him at the Dillons’ Sunflower Showdown. ?
We talked college and minor league… pic.twitter.com/FXY6PO7aXt— Brian Hanni (@BHanni) May 5, 2024