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Championships are rare in Arizona. Arizona State and the University of Arizona have won a few. And the Arizona Diamondbacks won a World Series in 2001, but that wasn’t the first big win for a ball team. That honor belongs to a women’s softball team. The Phoenix Ramblers, whose official name was the Peterson Brook Steiner and Wist (PBSW) Ramblers, captured the Amateur Softball Association championship in 1940. At the time, fast-pitch softball was a popular pastime in Arizona. Although the Ramblers were an amateur team, there was no shortage of spectators to watch the women play.

Wilkinson was one of the best catchers in the history of women's softball, and was the first woman admitted to the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.

Softball legend Dot Wilkinson, now 101, lived for the game, and one of her fiercest on-field rivalries led to her other great love.