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Silver King (baseball)
American baseball player (1868–1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silver King (January 11, 1868 – May 21, 1938), born Charles Frederick Koenig, was an American Major League Baseball player from 1886 through 1897. During his ten-year career, spent primarily as a pitcher, King played for the Kansas City Cowboys (1886), St. Louis Browns (1887–1889), Chicago Pirates (1890), Pittsburgh Pirates (1891), New York Giants (1892–93), Cincinnati Reds (1893), and Washington Senators (1896–97).
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Silver King | |
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![]() 1888 baseball card of King | |
Pitcher | |
Born: (1868-01-11)January 11, 1868 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | |
Died: May 21, 1938(1938-05-21) (aged 70) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 28, 1886, for the Kansas City Cowboys | |
Last MLB appearance | |
August 19, 1897, for the Washington Senators | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 203–152 |
Earned run average | 3.18 |
Strikeouts | 1,222 |
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Career highlights and awards | |
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Newspapers in St. Louis, Missouri, gave him the nickname Silver King, referring to his prematurely gray hair and shortening his German surname.[1]