He finished the 1951 season, and his professional career, with the Tacoma Tigers of the Class-B Western International League.

With the Pacific Coast League's Tacoma Tigers, he pitched 510.2 innings, going 32-25 with a 2.78 earned run average.

He played for the Tacoma Tigers in the A's organization after being traded.

He started his professional baseball career in 1908 with the Northwestern League's Tacoma Tigers.

The team moved to Tacoma in 1904, where it won the pennant as the Tacoma Tigers.

In 1915, the league played its only official playoff, which matched the first-place Seattle Giants against the second-place Tacoma Tigers.

Subsequently, the team was known as the Tacoma Tugs (1979) and, once more, the Tacoma Tigers (1980-1994).

He advanced to their Triple-A club, the Tacoma Tigers, the following season.

Lees played half a season for the Tacoma Tigers seeing limited playing time.

That season, he played for the Spokane Blue Stockings and the Tacoma Tigers.