This speedy outfielder started as a teenager with IPAC in 1944 and was instrumental in helping the team win the Intermediate Ladies championship in 1946. In 1947 she joined the St Boniface Athletics and played with the team for 3 years. The Athletics won the Ladies Senior League and provincial in 1948. Ruth was chosen as an all star outfielder in 1948. The All American Professional Girls Baseball League called in 1950 and Ruth Gentry toured 4 years with Chicago Colleens, Battle Creek Belles and the Muskegon Belles receiving numerous game & week recognition awards for her fielding and base stealing. She has already been inducted into the American Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY as well as the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame.
