Eddie Feigner

Eddie Feigner (March 25, 1925 – February 9, 2007) was an American softball player. Feigner (pronounced FAY-ner) was born in Walla Walla, Washington as Myrle Vernon King. He first assembled his four-man team, known as "The King and His Court," in 1946 and took on all comers, first in the Pacific Northwest and then around the country; Feigner retired after suffering a stroke in 2000. The King and His Court touring team played over ten thousand softball games in a hundred countries since the late 1940s and achieved widespread fame similar to that of the Harlem Globetrotters. Feigner's meticulous records claim 9,743 victories, 141,517 strikeouts, 930 no-hitters and 238 perfect games. The Washington Post described him as "the greatest softball pitcher who ever lived."

References

*Washington Post, Obituary. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/10/AR2007021001394.html "Softball Pitching Star Eddie Feigner; Led 'King and His Court'"] . February 11, 2007.
*The Oregonian. [http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf?/base/sports/1171167946308780.xml&coll=7 "Baby Eddie, Abandoned at Hospital"]
*National Public Radio, "All Things Considered". [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7388703 "Remembering Softball's Flame-Throwing King"] . February 13, 2007.
*Associated Press. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070221065650/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/02/09/obit.feigner.ap/index.html "Softball Legend Feigner dead at 81"] . February 9, 2007.
*Sports Illustrated. [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1086439/index.htm "A King Without a Crown"] . August 21, 1972.

External links

* [http://www.kingandhiscourt.com/ Official Website of "The King and His Court"]