Career
Following her victory in Scheveningen, Baker took an office job with American Machine and Foundry in Australia. The Australian Tenpin Bowling Congress took notice, saying that the paid employment with a bowling company made Baker a "professional". This complaint was lodged in the days of "pure" amateurism, but an appeal to the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs, bowling"s international governing body, restored Baker"s amateur status but not before she had missed out on the 1983 FIQ World Championships.
Baker was named the World Bowling Writers Female Bowler of the Year in 1982 and elected to the (WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame in 1994.
