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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 was a sensational stunt, but Eddie Feigner, the Rube Waddell of softball, puts on a similar display of prowess in every inning of every game he pitches...
...Feigner makes his living by pitching with only three other players on his side-catcher, first baseman and shortstop. His four-man squad, billed as the King and His Court, plays the country's top professional and semi-pro teams and wins eleven games out of every twelve. It can do that because Feigner is very probably what he claims to be: the best softball pitcher in the world...
Although he clowns a lot while pitching, Feigner (pronounced Fay-ner) still manages to strike out most of the batters. Against a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., all-star team last week, he struck out 17 in seven innings (the regulation game), and that was not an unusual performance for him: many times he has struck...
...Rock-Thrower. Feigner, 38, traces his pitching prowess to his lonely childhood in Walla Walla, Wash. "I was a love child," he says, "and none of the parents would let their kids play with me." Left to himself, young Eddie spent countless hours alone in woods and fields, throwing rocks. After he developed into a rock-thrower of prodigious force and accuracy, he switched from rocks to softballs. Pitching for his grade school and high school teams, he won 103, lost none...