Colorado Silver Bullets

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The Colorado Silver Bullets was an all-female professional baseball team that played in the United States in the early 1990s. The Bullets were the first such team since the folding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1954.

The team received its name from a sponsorship from the Coors Brewing Company, which produces Coors Light, the "silver bullet" of beers. It was owned by Bob Hope (the former Atlanta Braves executive, not the iconic actor and comedian).

The Bullets were a traveling team, playing against semi-pro and amateur teams at ballparks throughout the country. Among their opponents were the Navy Mariners, an all-star team of players stationed at United States Navy bases, and the Hollywood Star Sox, a team of actors and other entertainment industry professionals captained by Jonathan Silverman. (Those games were played at, respectively, Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., and the Epicenter in Rancho Cucamonga, California.)

Some of the team's games were televised live across the U.S. on Prime Sports, now Fox Sports Net.

The team established a base in Albany, Georgia, and played about 20 games a year at Paul Eames Sports Complex for two seasons, starting in 1995, as the team sought ways to cut financial losses. But, in the end, the Bullets folded in 1996.