[2] Pepe was asked to leave the team after the Little League "threatened to revoke Hoboken's charter.
Ultimately, in 1974, the New Jersey Superior Court decided that Little League Baseball must allow girls to play.
[4] In 2004, she lent her glove and hat to the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
[3] In 2005 she attended a ceremony for Little League perfect game pitcher Kathleen Brownell who was being honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
[5] In October 2018, Pepe's hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, included her in a mural honoring Dorothea Lange and Dorothy McNeil, who were also born there.