Following her AAGPBL career, Lee joined several other players on Bill Allington's All-American team, a barnstorming remnant of the league. Allington formed the squad and worked with agent Matt Pascale of
Omaha, Nebraska. 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 girls played exhibition games with men's teams but sometimes exchanged pitchers and catchers so that men batted against men and the girls against girls. Before each game, the girls put on a 20 to 30 minute exhibition. 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. Dolores Lee, who divided her playing time between pitching and
third base, startled the public with a stunning throwing demonstration. 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. On some occasions, Lee would stand at the plate and throw two balls toward
second base, one to be caught by the second base defender and the other by the
shortstop. But the girls were always coming up with new gimmicks. The speedy
Joanne Weaver raced a horse from
left field to home plate on numerous occasions, just with only a
modest head start.
We were young, Lee said when asked about the life on the road.
We did not know any better. We were having fun playing ball. We certainly were not doing it for the money, she added. The Allington All-Stars would frequently travel several hundreds miles between games and slept five of six girls to a motel room. By today's standards, it was a rough schedule. Besides this, they shared receipts after paying expenses and Pascale's and Allington's shares. For most games, the girls were paid $10 or less. 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. ==Life after baseball==