Leon Day, Birthday on October 30th, Leon Day Biography, Career, Achievements.

Leon Day as the name suggests its not actually a day of the week or year but it is actually the name of a very famous baseball player.

Leon Day Birth Details

Leon Day was born on 30th October in the year 1916 at the city of Alexandria in Virginia.

Leon Day was a right handed player or rather pitcher.
His father Ellis was a worker in the glass factory.
Being the fifth child out of six children he was very fond of games specially baseball.
While he was young his family moved to Mt. Winans that was near to Baltimore, Maryland.

Leon Day as a young boy, used to climb fences to see games of the local Negro League team, the Baltimore Black Sox.
After visiting the church every Sunday he used to play with the local teams
He left his studies when he was 17 years old to join the then famous team called The Baltimore Black Sox.
This team was a professional Baseball team that played out of Baltimore, Maryland in the Negro Leagues.
Negro Leagues was actually the American Baseball Leagues that usually comprised of African-American teams.
His mother died in the year 1934 after which he left the Baltimores just to be a part of the Brooklyn Eagles.
Brooklyn Eagles, was founded by Abey Manley and his wife Effa Manley when they bought the Newark Dodgers and merged all the teams.
He was paid a monthly salary of 50 dollars.
He stayed with the Eagles till the early 1940s.

Leon Day was an extremely outstanding baseball player.
In 1935, Leon Day played in the Latin American team.
He showed his talent in the year 1937 while playing for Newark Eagles for his fastball.
From then onwards till the year 1955, he kept on playing for various teams.
Not only had this but between all this he also served the US Army in the Second World War
He also worked as a bartender, a security guard.
After showing his eminent skills in baseball he said a final bye to baseball in the year 1955.
In the year 1995 Leon Day was chosen to be honored with the Baseball Hall of Fame and immediately just six days later Day died of a heart attack in Baltimore, Maryland.
He was at the age of 78.
He almost lived his life playing baseball.
He was chosen as the 12th Hall of Famers chosen in the Negro League category.
He was the 7th to be selected while he was still living after people like Paige, Buck Leonard, and Irvin who were in their early seventies and others like them.
He is still remembered and will be always be.