| Ken Keltner | |
|---|---|
 Keltner's 1949 Bowman Gum baseball card | |
| Third baseman | |
| Born: October 31, 1916 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | |
| Died: December 12, 1991 (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 | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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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 October 20, 2022.
- ^ "Top 100 Greatest Cleveland Indians Players". Cleveland State University Library. Retrieved October 20, 2022.