Those Fightin' Silver Bullets

• Their catcher was mouthing off the whole game. After the second pitch in the last inning, I turned to him and told him to be quiet and play the game. The very next pitch hit me. I thought it was pretty obvious what had happened. I was angry and frustrated and stepped to walk toward first base. I looked at the pitcher (Greg Dominy), and he started laughing at me. That's when I lost it.
  -- Kim Braatz-Voisard, Silver Bullets, on charging the mound, 12 June 97

  

• She was on him like a cat on a pork chop.
  -- Mark Lastinger, reporter for Albany Herald, 12 June 1997

• As good a baseball brawl as I've ever seen. All havoc broke loose.
  -- Phil Niekro, Silver Bullets' GM, 12 June 97

• They play just the way Phil Niekro has taught them -- they'll run over you or under you, spike you, gouge your eyeballs out and do anything else they can to win. I love 'em.
  -- Jack Warner, Atlanta Mustangs, on playing the Silver Bullets, June 1997

• It's not a public-relations problem -- it's baseball. It might even be a major step forward for women's sports. There's sociological value in women standing up for themselves.
  -- Bob Hope, Silver Bullets' President, 12 June 1997

• I can sit in a ballpark after a game and love looking at the field. Everybody's gone, and the ballpark is empty, and I'll sit there. I sit there and think, 'Is this as close to heaven as I'm going to get?' Or, 'If I get to heaven, will there be baseball?
  -- Kim Braatz-Voisard, Silver Bullets' center fielder, 1997