Itâs not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated womenâs softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933â1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earthâover a centuryâalthough any of these things by itself would be impressive. The magic of Dotâs story is in the details. Itâs the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it. Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate, told through the lens of Dot and Lynnâs friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in womenâs history and sports, and one extraordinary womanâs place at the center of it all.