Eddie Feigner, the greatest softball showman of all time, came out of Walla Walla in the aftermath of World War II and toured the world for the next 55 years.
Author: David Eskenazi
David Eskenazi
Many of the historic images on Sports Press Northwest are provided by resident Northwest sports history aficionado, David Eskenazi. A Seattle native, David has amassed an extensive archive of Seattle, Northwest, and West Coast historic sports photographs, artifacts and ephemera. We draw from this archive to illustrate stories in The Vault, and our weekly Rotation feature, The Wayback Machine. Youll see many unique and evocative representations of our sporting past, many of which have never been seen publicly. You are in for a treat! David enjoys sharing his collection and zeal for Northwest sports history. His historical showcase activities have included displays at numerous museums, historical societies, and community events, including an annual Northwest baseball history display at Mariners FanFest, and working on baseball-themed fund raising events for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Since the early 1990s, The Seattle Mariners have enlisted David to help recognize and illustrate Seattle and the Northwests 120-year baseball legacy. This collaboration has produced historical displays at Safeco Field, including seven 35-foot long historical storyboards surrounding the Safeco Field main concourse, Fred Hutchinson seat end stanchions, and classic early photographs on the suite level, all created for the opening of Safeco Field in 1999. From its opening in 2007 to the present day, David has provided thematic ideas, design elements, images, and scores of original historic Northwest baseball artifacts for the Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest at Safeco Field. David also contributed visual materials, historical consultation and on-screen interviews for documentaries on The Seattle Rainiers, The Spokane Indians, and the Seattle Pilots, and provided images and other inputs for a multitude of books, magazines, web-sites and other media focusing on Seattle, Northwest and West Coast sports history. Recent books he contributed to extensively include SABRs Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest, and Dan Raleys Pitchers of Beer: The Seattle Rainiers Story. David has a keen ongoing interest in sharing stories, expanding and enhancing his collection, and broadening his knowledge and archive of Northwest sports history and memorabilia. If you have questions, memories to share, stories to suggest, or would like to talk to him about selling or trading Seattle and Northwest sports artifacts, please contact him at (206) 441-1900, or at seattlesportshistory@gmail.com
Lou Piniella transformed the Mariners franchise after he became manager in 1993, installing a culture of competition and winning that had been missing before his arrival.
Daniel James Brown’s remarkable book, “The Boys in the Boat,” recounts the most compelling victory by any team in Washington state sports history.
Luther Carr had a celebrated prep career at Lincoln-Tacoma, played under three coaches at Washington, and became a successful Seattle businessman.
Lincoln High School had a storied athletic tradition, but here’s the question: Who was the most significant athletic figure in the institution’s history?
Jack Lohrke spent 17 years in pro baseball, but was lucky to spend a day. He escaped death six times while in the Army — and that was just the beginning.
A proposal considered “fantastic” and “imaginative” could have resulted in the world’s first floating sports stadium, at the foot of West Harrison Street.
Despite his accomplishments in college, with the 1968 U.S. Olympic team and his 11 years in the NBA, Spencer Haywood still hasn’t made the Hall of Fame.
Seattle has hosted five Final Fours, but the 1984 event, more than any other, transformed the NCAA Tournament into what today is March Madness.
The Mariners played a lot of slapstick baseball in their early years, but Alvin Davis brought respectability and dignity to the club when he arrived in 1984.