Born:(1916-10-31)October 31, 1916 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died: December 12, 1991(1991-12-12) (aged 75) New Berlin, Wisconsin, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
October 2, 1937, for the Cleveland Indians
Last MLB appearance
May 25, 1950, for the Boston Red Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average
.276
Home runs
163
Runs batted in
852
Teams
Cleveland Indians (1937–1944, 1946–1949)
Boston Red Sox (1950)
Career highlights and awards
7× All-Star (1940–1944, 1946, 1948)
World Series champion (1948)
Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame
Kenneth Frederick Keltner (October 31, 1916 – December 12, 1991) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1937 to 1950, most prominently as a member of the Cleveland Indians where he was a seven-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1948 World Series winning team. He played his final season for the Boston Red Sox.[1]
Keltner was notable for being one of the best fielding third basemen in the 1940s and for helping to end Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak on July 17, 1941.[2] He was inducted into the Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame in 1951.[3] In 2001, he was voted one of the 100 greatest players in Cleveland Indians' history by a panel of veteran baseball writers, executives and historians.[4]
^"Ken Keltner Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved August 23, 2010.
^Ken Keltner at the SABR Baseball Biography Project , by Jim Nitz, Retrieved 20 July 2010.
^"Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame". mlb.com. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
^"Top 100 Greatest Cleveland Indians Players". Cleveland State University Library. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
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