Guy Leeder
Clovis’ Mr. Softball
1942 - 2007

Guy & I were married at Christmas time in 1968. I had no idea what softball was or how much Guy was already involved with the game. That spring, I got a rude awaking, when Guy put his shorts and tennis shoe’s on; gathered up his bat bag and headed for the field. I didn’t see him again until fall and the cowboy image I had of the man I had married was replaced with one of a softball player.

There was just one field; it was where Dickenson Little League Field is now.
Guy could see a bigger picture for softball in those early years, as the program he helped start with a few Jaycees, grew from that one small field at the corner of Sycamore & 14th Street to the complex we have now.

Guy Leeder Softball Complex as become one of the nicest softball complexes in New Mexico. Guy’s vision is a reality that players and their families will enjoy for a very long time. The Clovis Softball Association will continue to run and take care of Guy’s vision. They will need the help of every team manager and player, spouse and child. Guy always said that it was their ball parks not his.

Guy wanted to grow old, watering the trees at the Complex, watching each player and their children’s children play the game of softball. I believe Guy is watching, knowing that the love of the game is still going strong here in Clovis.