When people speak about the glory days of women's softball in Winnipeg when games were played in front of crowds in the thousands, Bea McKenzie is one name usually mentioned. McKenzie won a Manitoba Intermediate Championship with St. Vital Rovers in 1930 and several senior championships with St. Boniface Athletics during that decade and the 1940s. A perennial all-star at catcher and often described as the "backbone" of the Athletics, McKenzie continued to play until 1952. In 1951 when she played several positions, a Winnipeg Free Press reporter wrote, "the ageless Bea would be the logical selection as the best all round player in the league."
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