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Speaking from his experience as a manager for the Colorado Silver Bullets Female Professional Baseball Team, Hall of Fame inductee Phil Niekro described his initial skepticism toward a female baseball team...
...team's manager, former major league knuckleballer Phil Niekro who won 300 games in the bigs, has a proper sense of just what's at stake. He told the Sentinel: "I think it's time that everyone saw what females could do if given the chance to compete in professional baseball at the minor league or major league level...
...Phil Niekro, the Silver Bullets manager, is right, but he understates the situation. American society is systemmatically squandering half of its baseball talent...
Managing this traditionally mediocre club is bad enough; having coach and heir-apparent Phil Niekro looking over your shoulder is worse...
...remember you had 170 hits your first year and 139 your second, which is only 309 your first two years, when you've had ten 200-hit years and are averaging 198 hits a season for 20 years?" Furthermore: "If you have some 70 hits against Phil Niekro, and some 40 hits against Joe Niekro, is it twisted to be aware that you have over 100 hits -- one-fortieth of all your hits -- against Mrs. Niekro's sons, and to wish she'd had more children? Doesn't everyone know how much money they have in the bank...