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CHATHAM — Baseball legend Fergie Jenkins is “shocked and saddened” by resistance to efforts to move his charitable foundation to his hometown of Chatham from St. Catharines.
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Plans to move the headquarters are thwarted by foundation board members, so he is suing them and the foundation to recover memorabilia held by the Fergie Jenkins Museum, according to a statement from McKenzie Lake Lawyers, which Jenkins made public.
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“Members of the board of the Fergie Jenkins Foundation are attempting to shut down the operations of the foundation and have refused to return certain memorabilia of Mr Jenkins to it,” the statement from the London law firm read.
The foundation started in 1999. According to its 2013 media filing, the foundation had donated over $4 million to numerous charities.
“The foundation has grown so much since we started and I love that we have the opportunity to help so many great causes,” Jenkins said when he received the Order of Canada in 2007.
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The foundation reported income of $97,000 and more than $115,000 in expenses in its 2020 tax returns to the Canada Revenue Agency. He brought in $255 772 in income and in $283,720 spent in 2019.
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The museum opened in 2011 in St. Catharines. It contains items from Jenkins’ career and black history records as well as memorabilia from family members, the law firm’s statement notes. The law firm also said it was Jenkins’ “dream” to have the foundation’s headquarters in Chatham.
“Mr. Jenkins and her family are saddened by the erosion of their relationship with the Fergie Jenkins Foundation and hope to reach a resolution and continue the foundation’s mission to “meet humanitarian needs through the love of sport,” the firm said. lawyers.
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The statement said Jenkins will not comment further as the situation is before the courts.
The Hall of Fame pitcher now lives in Texas. He visited Chatham last month to announce that a life-size replica of Jenkins’ huge bronze sculpture unveiled outside Chicago’s Wrigley Field in May is set to arrive next spring at the Chatham-Kent Civic Center.
Jenkins kicked off 10 of his 19 major league seasons with the Chicago Cubs. He retired after the 1983 season with a 284-226 record and 3,192 strikeouts. The 1971 Cy Young Award winner and seven-time 20-game winner was the first Canadian to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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