When Angie Mentink (then Marzetta) first picked up a baseball for the Colorado Silver Bullets in 1995, only a magic genie or a visit from the cast of Avengers: Endgame could’ve told her what to expect on March 11, 2023. The Colorado Silver Bullets were the first professional women’s baseball team since the All-American Girls Baseball League folded in 1954 and Mentink was freshly out of college at the University of Washington. Despite her playing softball for the Huskies, baseball was what got her up in the morning. She could’ve played in the Olympics for USA Softball, but instead she chose to stay in Colorado to play baseball with other women who loved the game equally as much.
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