King was Mason County's first all-stater

Gerald "Jerry" King was Mason County's first all-state basketball player. King was named third team all-state by the Lexington Herald-Leader in 1962 after he averaged 19.4 points a game his senior season. King is 47th on the Royals' all-time scoring list with 728 points. He was a junior when Mason County played its first season. King was a U.S. Marine and served in Vietnam. When he returned home, he played basketball at Morehead State University. After college, he played for several elite softball teams. King was named to the American Softball Associations' 1970 Team of Decade. He was inducted into the Legends Club at the Worth Softball Hall of Fame in Columbus, Ohio and the National Softball Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma last year. King, a former Maysville police officer, resides in Maysville.


(Photo cropped from a team photo in the 1961 Mason County Yearbook)