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Anne Marie, Feigner's fourth wife, became the first woman on the team.

A former marine with a crew cut and a right arm noticeably more muscular than his left, Feigner threw hard.

Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure.

In 1972, Sports Illustrated called Feigner, who pitched 238 perfect games, the most underrated athlete of his time.

On February 18, 1967, Feigner appeared in a celebrity charity softball game against many Major League players.

Feigner swore the tale was true, except that it was a curveball that crossed second base on its way to the plate.

After decades of popularity, fast-pitch men's softball lost ground to slow pitch ("a sissy game," Feigner said) and to women's fast pitch.

On "The Tonight Show," a blindfolded Feigner knocked a cigar from Johnny Carson's mouth.

"Softball Pitching Star Eddie Feigner; Led 'King and His Court'".

Last summer, Feigner (pronounced FAY-ner) sometimes rose from his wheelchair to throw a pitch or two, despite dementia and a succession of strokes and heart attacks.

"It was a mismatch," Feigner said in an interview with a publication of the Loma Linda University Adventist Health Science Center.

In 2002, ESPN.com listed Feigner as one of the 10 greatest pitchers in a list that included Walter Johnson and Sandy Koufax.

Feigner (pronounced FAY-ner) was born in Walla Walla, Washington as Myrle Vernon King.

The Sealmasters hosted many famous competitors from all over the United States, most notably Eddie Feigner and The King and His Court, as well as International opponents.

Eddie Feigner, who for 60 years barnstormed the globe with his four-man softball team, hurling 100-mile-an-hour pitches that struck out Willie Mays and 141,516 other batters, died on Friday in Huntsville, Ala.

While barnstorming is no longer as popular as it was in the 20th century, some teams such as basketball's Harlem Globetrotters, softball's King and His Court founded by Eddie Feigner and ice hockey's Buffalo Sabres Alumni Hockey Team carry on the tradition.