Silver King (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1868
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 21-May-1938
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Silver King (baseball)
- Silver King (January 11, 1868 – May 21, 1938), born Charles Frederick Koenig in St.
- Louis, Missouri, was a Major League Baseball player from 1886 through 1897. In a 10-year career, spent primarily as a pitcher, King played for the Kansas City Cowboys (1886), St.
- Louis Browns (1887–89), Chicago Pirates (1890), Pittsburgh Pirates (1891), New York Giants (1892–93), Cincinnati Reds (1893), and Washington Senators (1896–97).
- The first part of King's nickname was a reference to the color of his hair, while the latter part was a translation of his German surname. King was an unusual pitcher for his time.
- Gripping the ball with unusually large hands, he delivered the ball without a windup.
- He was also one of the first pitchers in major league history to employ a sidearm delivery.
- The unconventional methods worked, as he went on to pitch 3,190?2/3 innings, winning 203 games with 1229 strikeouts and a 3.18 earned run average in 397 games.
- His strong fastball enabled him to become a notable strikeout artist; he finished among the league's top 10 in that category six times. King's best season came in 1888, when he led the Browns to their fourth consecutive American Association championship.
- That year, King led the league with 585?2/3 innings pitched in 66 games, 45 wins, and a 1.64 ERA.
- In 1890, he jumped to Chicago of the Players' League and added another ERA title while winning 30 games.
- On June 21, 1890, King threw a no-hitter for Chicago, the only one in the league's one-year history.
- (King lost 1–0, and pitched only eight innings in the loss, so this game is not officially recognized by MLB as a no-hitter.) After baseball, King returned to his native St.
- Louis.
- He died in 1938, at age 70, and was buried at New St.
- Marcus Cemetery in St.
- Louis.
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