The league added two more teams in 1946, the Muskegon Lassies and the Peoria Redwings. Carlson appears as a member of the Muskegon Lassies club during its 1949 season. In 1939 she recorded "The Blackbird", "The Spinning Wheel" and "Three Lovely Lassies" for HMV. At age 19, Sams entered the AAGPBL in 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies. In 1950, the Muskegon team became the Kalamazoo Lassies. She was allocated to the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951 but never heard from them. The struggling Lassies placed last in the league with a 36-73 record. Previously, the Muskegon Lassies had played there from through . During the 1950 season, Baker was traded to the Kalamazoo Lassies to act as player-manager. Marilyn Jones limited the Lassies to four runs on nine hits. The Lassies combined for a 36-73 record that year and finished in the cellar. But the Lassies lost both games in the finals to the Grand Rapids Chicks.