Eddie Feigner, a crowd-pleasing softball pitcher and showman who toured the world for 55 years as The King and His Court, died Feb. 9 from complications of dementia at Cogburn Health and ...
When I was young and living in Canada, the King and His Court came to town one summer night to play softball against a local all-star team. The King was Eddie Feigner, unhittable pitching from the ...
My father bought a baseball bat at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago. It was an "Eddie Feigner" bat, which prompted him to hop on the Internet and see what ever happened to the King and his Court.
Eddie Feigner would take the field with a catcher, shortstop and first baseman, the King and His Court. Then he'd strike out the side. And again and again. The barnstorming hard-throwing softball ...
This column could have been written by any one of more than 100,000 folks. All of us were struck out by Eddie Feigner. Eddie was one of a kind, and he died last Saturday, at age 81, in Huntsville, Ala ...
I keep getting Eddie Feigner (King and His Court) email from all around. This one comes from Hal Cowan, the retired long-time Sports Information Director at Oregon State. Wrote Hal: "I played against ...
When he pitched in exhibition games for the old Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Browns, the late Rube Waddell occasionally waved his fielders to the bench and tried to strike out the side. It ...
GRANTED, he was pitching behind his back, blindfolded, from second base — but I swear, I got a hit off "The King," Eddie Feigner, the greatest softball pitcher of all time. Granted, the King and His ...
Len Kolakowski never reached the major leagues but played with or against some of the best baseball players of the 20th century. They included Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Satchel Paige and Pee Wee ...