Her accomplishments included winning the Rookie of the Year Award and playing in the All-American touring team organized and piloted by Bill Allington.
Though her school had no sports for girls, the local area provided a wide range of opportunities through the Catholic Youth Organization leagues.
[1][5][6] In 1953 Lee posted career-numbers in wins (12), percentage (.545) and games pitched (26), while Rockford, now with Johnny Rawlings at the helm, ended in fourth place (51–55) and advanced to the playoffs.
[1][6][8] Following her AAGPBL career, Lee joined several other players on Bill Allington's All-American team, a barnstorming remnant of the league.
The Allington All-Stars played 100 games between 1955 and 1958, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan.
The baseball fanatics, even skeptics who were not were ready to admit that women could be athletes, were greatly impressed by the ball-handling skills displayed by the girls during infield practice.
She would position two catchers at home plate, one in each batter's box, and wind up and throw two balls simultaneously, nearly always hurling perfect strikes.
The speedy Joanne Weaver raced a horse from left field to home plate on numerous occasions, just with only a modest head start.
Their most significant performance came on July 17 of 1957, when they played before 5,719 fans in a three-inning exhibition against the St. Paul Saints before a regular American Association game at Midway Stadium.
Besides Lee and Weaver, the Allington All-Stars included players as Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Gertrude Dunn, Betty Foss, Mary Froning, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder, Jean Smith and Dolly Vanderlip, between others.
She also became part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, opened in 1988, which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual player.