What is "silver king"

César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón (born January 9, 1968) is a Luchador Enmascarado (masked wrestler) and actor. He is known best as Silver King, but also had an extensive stint as Black Tiger III, the third incarnation of the Black Tiger character. He is the son of luchador Dr. Wagner and the brother of Dr. Wagner, Jr. González worked for many years with El Texano as the tag team "Los Cowboys" winning tag team championships in both Mexico and Japan. Silver King has worked for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and various smaller federations all over the world. González also starred as the villain "Ramses" in the movie Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black. In June 2010, González began using the ring name Silver Cain/Kain when wrestling in Mexico City as a way to be able to officially be allowed to wear his mask again.

Silver King may refer to:

• Silver King (baseball), Charles Koenig, a professional baseball player from the 19th century
• Silver King (wrestler), the best known gimmick used by professional wrestler César González
• A silver king, another name for the species of fish better known as the Atlantic Tarpon
• Silver King, the nickname for Tom Norman, the owner of the freak show that exhibited Joseph Merrick, known as the "Elephant Man"
• Silver King, the name for the broadcast television arm of the Home Shopping Network, which later became USA Broadcasting
• Silver King, the term used to often describe the individuals, dressed in cowboy outfits who deliver meat on skewers at churrascaria restaurants, often known in North America as "Ten Different Meats"
• Silver King Creek, a tributary of the Carson River in Carson-Iceberg Wilderness where Paiute cutthroat trout are endemic.

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 Jacksonville Illinois (1885) and St. Joseph Missouri in the Western League (1886), the Kansas City Cowboys (1886), St. Louis Browns (1887), 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 also was 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 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 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 laid to rest at New St. Marcus Cemetery in St. Louis.