Patti McGuire swung a hot bat while playing the hot corner. During her residency in Burnaby, the Softball BC Hall of Fame member was on a team that won five Canadian championships.
Prior to that she was on the Canadian team that won a silver medal at the 1978 world tournament in El Salvador as well as the one that came eighth in the 1974 Worlds in Stratford, Conn. McGuire played for legendary coach Adrian Lavigne on a star-studded squad that was known at different times, depending on the club’s sponsor of the day, as Green&Louie, Doc’s Blues and Alpha Sports.
The teams she played on captured 11 Canadian titles. McGuire was named a national all-star five times. Provincially, her teams won 17 titles. During her career in league play, McGuire had a career batting average of .325. She was a run producer ranking first overall in runs batted in, runs scored and doubles while being second in home runs and extra base hits, all the while being a defensive stalwart at third base.
