Eleanor has been one of Manitoba’s most skilled and successful female softball players. During her years in Winnipeg softball, 1941-47, she led teams to provincial championships, placed repeatedly on All-Star teams and won MVP honors. 1947-54, she played in the All American Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), which Phillip Wrigley, chewing gum magnate and owner of the Chicago Cubs, had founded in 1943 when so many stars in men's professional baseball had enlisted to serve in WWII. It was a prized league with a huge fan base, managed by former major league players and creating celebrities in the baseball world. In 4 of these 8 years, Eleanor led the league in triples and was named league All-Star. She is the only Canadian female to hold two career records in professional baseball - a league record 60 triples and 55 home runs. Not surprisingly, she was known as the Babe Ruth of the league. In 1954 when the league folded, she moved to Saskatoon to help the Saskatoon Hub City Ramblers win both the provincial and Western Canada championships. She is enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame.