Mission Statement

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The Leon Day Foundation, Inc. is about kids and baseball; and the fierce urgency of connecting the two; we do this by making baseball history "relevant and exciting" and by playing baseball.

...20 years later, neither our kids or our baseball field is tournament ready.

Right now we are moving forward with community leaders to finish construction of the baseball field at Leon Day Park. 

There are 300 National Baseball Hall of Fame members, 64 of whom are living. As a member, Leon Day lived for six days. It was long enough. - "I made it."

Four months later, Leon Day's wife, Geraldine Day spoke on her late husband's behalf at the 1995 Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown. - "We will carry your spirit."

In 1997 Leon Day Park opened, and four years later Geraldine Day founded The Leon Day Foundation, Inc. "To promote self-awareness and lifelong learning for all ages through organized sports, resources, and educational programs; while preserving the legacies of Leon Day and the Negro League by giving recognition and exposure to a group of talented baseball players that were forgotten and never acknowledged."