Blue Water Woman--Fall 2020

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BECKY MAYES, LEFT, AND PAM BAUNOCH HOCKEY hall of famers BY PATTI SAMAR Photo, from left to right: Nancy Cruickshank Badly, Lynn Charboneau Burgett, Carol Bellow, Sandy Cruickshank, Kathie McCormick, Nan Morauski, Jacki Park DeLacy, Patty Lynch, Marsha Coney-Stroh, and Brenda Mudge Ruttan 26 FALL 2020 BLUEWATERWOMAN.COM
A “There’s no crying in baseball!” –Tom Hanks as Coach Jimmy Duggan in the women’s baseball movie, “A League of Their Own” According to Brenda Mudge Ruttan of Port Huron, there is also no crying in hockey. In the early 1960s, Ruttan used to strap on the skates and play with other neighborhood kids. “If I cried, I had to go home,” she said. “If I got hit with the puck, I had to go home. So big girls don’t cry.” That early lesson served Ruttan well come 1964 when she and approximately 44 other Blue Water Area teenaged girls formed what is believed to be the very first women’s hockey league in the United States at McMorran Place in Port Huron. Though that original league only existed for four seasons, they are leaving their mark on the history of the game with some of their equipment and other memorabilia recently being accepted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Yup. The Hall of Fame. The jersey belonging to Carol Bellow of Port Huron, who also played in the league, has been officially accepted into the Hall of Fame archives. According to representatives from the Hall of Fame, FALL 2020 BLUEWATERWOMAN.COM 27
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