Ken Keltner

Position: Third Baseman

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-0, 190lb (183cm, 86kg)

Born: October 31, 1916 in Milwaukee, WI us

Died: December 12, 1991 in New Berlin, WI

Buried: Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, WI

High School: Boys' Technical HS (Milwaukee, WI)

Debut: October 2, 1937 (Age 20-336d, 8,324th in major league history)
vs. DET 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: May 25, 1950 (Age 33-206d)
vs. SLB 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1938 season

Full Name: Kenneth Frederick Keltner

Nicknames: Butch

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

33.2

5683

1570

163

.276

737

RBI

852

OBP

.338

SLG

.441

OPS

.779

OPS+

112

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1943 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1943 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 21	CLE		DET	W,1-0	CG	30	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
2	2	Apr 22	CLE		DET	L,0-4	CG	0	9.0	0	5	0	5	0
3	3	Apr 24	CLE		DET	W,3-2	CG	0	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
4	4	Apr 25 (1)	CLE		DET	W,4-1	CG	37	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
5	5	Apr 25 (2)	CLE		DET	L,1-4	CG	42	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
6	6	Apr 27	CLE	@	CHW	W,4-2	CG	34	9.0	0	6	0	6	0
7	7	Apr 28	CLE	@	CHW	W,2-0	CG	38	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
8	8	May 1	CLE	@	DET	L,2-3	CG	0	14.1	0	6	0	6	0
9	9	May 2	CLE	@	DET	W,5-2	CG	40	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
10	10	May 4	CLE		CHW	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
11	11	May 5 (1)	CLE		CHW	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	2	5	0	7	1
12	12	May 5 (2)	CLE		CHW	L,2-5	CG	0	11.0	1	0	0	1	0
13	13	May 6	CLE		CHW	W,6-3	CG	0	9.0	2	2	0	4	2
14	14	May 8	CLE	@	SLB	L,2-3	CG	33	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
15	15	May 9 (1)	CLE	@	SLB	W,6-5	CG	0	13.0	1	4	0	5	0
16	16	May 9 (2)	CLE	@	SLB	L,5-7	CG	0	6.0	2	1	0	3	1
17	17	May 12	CLE		WSH	W,8-2	CG	0	9.0	0	2	1	3	0
18	18	May 13	CLE		WSH	L,2-3	CG	44	12.0	1	3	0	4	0
19	19	May 14	CLE		WSH	L,1-3	CG	37	9.0	3	5	1	9	0
20	20	May 15	CLE		PHA	W,2-0	CG	0	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
21	21	May 16 (1)	CLE		PHA	L,3-5	CG	0	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
22	22	May 16 (2)	CLE		PHA	W,3-2	CG	0	9.0	2	4	0	6	1
23	23	May 20 (1)	CLE		BOS	L,1-2	CG	37	10.0	1	2	0	3	1
24	24	May 20 (2)	CLE		BOS	L,4-7	CG	42	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
25	25	May 22	CLE		NYY	W,9-2	CG	36	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
26	26	May 23 (1)	CLE		NYY	W,3-1	CG	32	9.0	4	4	1	9	1
27	27	May 23 (2)	CLE		NYY	W,5-2	CG	36	9.0	0	3	0	3	1
28	30 (2)	May 28	CLE	@	BOS	W,5-2	CG	0	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
29	31	May 29	CLE	@	NYY	L,5-9	GS	28	5.0	0	1	0	1	0
30	32	May 30 (1)	CLE	@	NYY	L,3-4	CG	32	8.0	0	3	0	3	2
31	33	May 30 (2)	CLE	@	NYY	L,2-3	CG	38	8.2	0	3	0	3	0
32	34	May 31 (1)	CLE	@	WSH	L,7-8	GS	0		0	1	0	1	0
33	35	May 31 (2)	CLE	@	WSH	W,7-6	CG	53	13.0	1	0	0	1	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
34	36	Jun 1	CLE	@	WSH	L,2-3	CG	0	9.2	1	1	0	2	0
35	37	Jun 2	CLE	@	WSH	L,1-13	CG	46	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
36	38	Jun 3	CLE	@	PHA	L,4-10	CG	44	8.0	1	4	0	5	0
37	39	Jun 4	CLE	@	PHA	W,3-2	CG	29	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
38	40	Jun 5	CLE	@	PHA	L,5-6	CG	35	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
39	41	Jun 6 (1)	CLE	@	PHA	L,5-12	CG	43	8.0	0	3	0	3	1
40	42	Jun 6 (2)	CLE	@	PHA	W,5-0	CG	31	9.0	1	3	0	4	2
41	43	Jun 9	CLE		SLB	L,0-6	CG	37	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
42	44	Jun 10	CLE		SLB	L,1-2	CG	38	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
43	45	Jun 12	CLE		SLB	L,6-7	CG	58	11.0	1	2	0	3	0
44	46	Jun 13 (1)	CLE		SLB	L,1-3	CG	38	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
45	47	Jun 13 (2)	CLE		SLB	W,2-1	CG	0	10.0	3	7	0	10	0
46	48	Jun 17 (1)	CLE		DET	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
47	49	Jun 17 (2)	CLE		DET	W,6-5	CG	52	12.0	2	1	0	3	0
48	50	Jun 18	CLE	@	CHW	W,5-3	CG	54	14.0	0	4	0	4	1
49	51	Jun 19 (1)	CLE	@	CHW	W,5-4	CG	0	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
50	52	Jun 19 (2)	CLE	@	CHW	W,10-8	CG	0	10.0	0	4	0	4	0
51	53	Jun 20 (1)	CLE	@	CHW	L,6-10	GS	0		0	1	0	1	0
52	54	Jun 20 (2)	CLE	@	CHW	W,7-2	CG	0	9.0	4	0	1	5	0
53	55	Jun 23 (1)	CLE	@	DET	L,1-3	CG	34	8.0	2	5	0	7	1
54	56	Jun 23 (2)	CLE	@	DET	W,9-6	CG	0	11.0	0	0	0	0	0
55	57	Jun 24	CLE	@	DET	L,4-7	CG	38	8.0	0	1	1	2	0
56	58	Jun 25	CLE		CHW	W,6-2	CG	0	9.0	0	7	0	7	0
57	59	Jun 26	CLE		CHW	L,2-3	CG	0	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
58	60	Jun 27 (1)	CLE		CHW	W,2-1	CG	33	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
59	61	Jun 27 (2)	CLE		CHW	L,0-2	CG	21	5.0	0	0	0	0	0
60	62	Jun 30	CLE		NYY	L,1-3	CG	43	11.0	3	0	0	3	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
61	63	Jul 1	CLE		NYY	W,3-2	CG	40	9.0	0	2	1	3	0
62	64	Jul 2	CLE		NYY	W,12-0	CG	29	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
63	65	Jul 3	CLE		BOS	L,4-12	CG	46	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
64	66	Jul 5 (1)	CLE		PHA	L,1-2	CG	32	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
65	67	Jul 5 (2)	CLE		PHA	L,0-7	CG	41	9.0	1	2	1	4	0
66	68	Jul 6	CLE		PHA	W,2-0	CG	32	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
67	69	Jul 8	CLE		WSH	W,5-2	CG	37	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
68	70	Jul 9	CLE		WSH	L,0-1	CG	0	13.0	5	2	0	7	0
69	71	Jul 10	CLE		WSH	L,0-4	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
70	72	Jul 11 (1)	CLE		WSH	W,5-1	CG	0	9.0	2	1	0	3	1
71	73	Jul 11 (2)	CLE		WSH	L,4-6	CG	0	10.0	2	1	0	3	0
72	74	Jul 15	CLE	@	SLB	L,1-2	CG	29	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
73	75	Jul 16	CLE	@	SLB	L,3-4	CG	0	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
74	76	Jul 17	CLE	@	SLB	L,1-3	CG	36	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
75	77	Jul 18 (1)	CLE	@	SLB	W,4-3	CG	0	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
76	78	Jul 18 (2)	CLE	@	SLB	W,10-7	CG	0	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
77	79	Jul 21	CLE	@	PHA	W,7-0	CG	0	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
78	80	Jul 22	CLE	@	PHA	W,2-1	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
79	81	Jul 23	CLE	@	PHA	W,1-0	CG	29	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
80	82	Jul 24	CLE	@	WSH	W,2-0	CG	32	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
81	83	Jul 25 (1)	CLE	@	WSH	W,8-2	CG	35	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
82	84	Jul 25 (2)	CLE	@	WSH	L,2-7	CG	0	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
83	85	Jul 26	CLE	@	WSH	W,7-3	CG	34	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
84	86	Jul 27	CLE	@	NYY	L,3-4	CG	55	12.2	2	2	1	5	1
85	87	Jul 28	CLE	@	NYY	W,6-2	CG	35	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
86	88	Jul 29	CLE	@	NYY	L,1-11	CG	41	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
87	89	Jul 30	CLE	@	NYY	L,4-5	CG	34	8.0	3	4	0	7	0
88	90	Jul 31	CLE	@	BOS	L,4-5	CG	52	11.1	3	1	0	4	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
89	91	Aug 1 (1)	CLE	@	BOS	W,8-6	CG	43	9.0	0	3	1	4	0
90	92	Aug 1 (2)	CLE	@	BOS	L,1-4	CG	39	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
91	93	Aug 3	CLE	@	BOS	W,11-9	CG	43	9.0	1	7	0	8	1
92	94	Aug 6	CLE		SLB	W,1-0	CG	32	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
93	95	Aug 7	CLE		SLB	L,0-2	CG	37	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
94	96	Aug 8 (1)	CLE		SLB	W,6-5	GS	0		2	4	1	7	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
95	141 (44)	Sep 23 (1)	CLE	@	BOS	L,7-13	GF	25	4.0	0	1	0	1	0
96	142	Sep 23 (2)	CLE	@	BOS	W,6-4	CG	42	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
97	143	Sep 24	CLE	@	BOS	L,0-1	CG	34	9.0	0	5	0	5	2
98	144	Sep 25	CLE	@	BOS	W,6-3	CG	38	10.0	0	3	0	3	0
99	145	Sep 26 (1)	CLE	@	NYY	L,2-3	CG	31	8.0	1	3	0	4	0
100	146	Sep 26 (2)	CLE	@	NYY	L,5-6	CG	45	9.2	2	1	0	3	0
101	147	Sep 27	CLE	@	NYY	L,2-5	CG	35	8.0	1	3	0	4	0
102	148	Sep 28	CLE	@	NYY	W,11-3	CG	39	9.0	2	3	0	5	1
103	149	Sep 29 (1)	CLE	@	WSH	L,2-6	CG	37	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
104	150	Sep 29 (2)	CLE	@	WSH	L,4-7	CG	0	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
105	151	Oct 2 (1)	CLE	@	PHA	W,8-3	CG	42	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
106	152	Oct 2 (2)	CLE	@	PHA	W,6-2	CG	37	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
107	153	Oct 3	CLE	@	PHA	W,8-4	CG	48	11.0	1	4	1	6	0
							107gm		976.0	113	228	11	352	24