An outstanding player in her own right, Rose Mofford has been one of the driving forces behind softball in Arizona. An organizer of the Arizona Softball Foundation, she has served the past four years as chairman of the Foundation’s annual Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet. She is a charter member of the Arizona Softball Foundation Board of Governors and was honored as the Foundation’s Woman of the Year in 1976. The Softball Foundation owes much of the success to her organizational talents and support. As a player, she started in Globe and was picked to play third base for the Phoenix A-1 Queens in two exhibitions in New York’s
Madison Square Garden in 1938.