Once upon a time when Winnipeg Tribune sports editor Tony Allan wanted to compare the ability of female softball players to male baseball players, he used shortstop Evelyn Wawryshyn of CUAC Blues to make his point. He said she could “play any kind of ball, and in any company . . . and if she had been born a boy . . . the stands would be filled with major league scouts.” Not long after, the scouts did find Wawryshyn, the Blues MVP when the team won the provincial championship in 1945. She left Winnipeg in 1946 for a six-season career in the All American Professional Girls Baseball League where she garnered all-star honours at second base three times. The Tyndall-born all-around athlete was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.