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.

1946 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1946 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 16	CLE	@	CHW	W,1-0	CG	0	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
2	2	Apr 17	CLE	@	CHW	W,7-1	CG	34	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
3	3	Apr 20	CLE		DET	L,0-7	CG	40	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
4	4	Apr 21	CLE		DET	L,2-3	CG	0	10.0	0	3	1	4	0
5	5	Apr 24	CLE	@	SLB	W,5-1	CG	35	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
6	6	Apr 25	CLE		CHW	L,2-11	CG	50	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
7	7	Apr 26	CLE		CHW	L,2-4	CG	38	9.0	2	3	0	5	0
8	8	Apr 27	CLE	@	DET	L,4-5	CG	49	10.2	1	0	0	1	0
9	9	Apr 28	CLE	@	DET	W,3-1	CG	45	12.0	2	3	0	5	1
10	10	Apr 30	CLE	@	NYY	W,1-0	CG	32	9.0	0	3	1	4	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
11	11	May 1	CLE	@	NYY	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	1	2	0	3	2
12	12	May 2	CLE	@	NYY	L,2-8	GS	28	5.0	0	2	0	2	0
13	13	May 3	CLE	@	BOS	L,4-9	CG	42	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
14	14	May 4	CLE	@	BOS	L,2-6	CG	41	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
15	15	May 5	CLE	@	WSH	L,4-12	CG	45	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
16	16	May 6	CLE	@	WSH	L,4-7	CG	0	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
17	17	May 7	CLE	@	WSH	L,1-2	CG	39	9.2	0	0	0	0	0
18	18	May 8	CLE	@	PHA	W,5-2	GS	9	3.0	0	0	0	0	0
19	22 (3)	May 13 (1)	CLE		SLB	W,9-2	CG	33	9.0	1	2	0	3	0
20	23	May 13 (2)	CLE		SLB	L,0-3	CG	38	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
21	24	May 15 (1)	CLE		PHA	W,3-0	CG	35	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
22	25	May 15 (2)	CLE		PHA	W,5-0	CG	31	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
23	26	May 17 (1)	CLE		WSH	W,3-0	CG	34	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
24	27	May 17 (2)	CLE		WSH	L,4-9	CG	43	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
25	28	May 19 (1)	CLE		NYY	L,0-2	CG	35	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
26	29	May 19 (2)	CLE		NYY	L,1-7	CG	41	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
27	30	May 20	CLE		NYY	W,4-3	CG	35	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
28	31	May 21	CLE		NYY	W,7-2	CG	33	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
29	32	May 22	CLE		BOS	L,4-7	CG	54	12.0	4	5	0	9	0
30	33	May 23	CLE		BOS	W,3-2	CG	39	10.0	0	0	0	0	0
31	34	May 25	CLE	@	SLB	W,1-0	GS	10	2.0	0	1	0	1	0
32	37 (2)	May 28	CLE		DET	L,1-6	CG	40	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
33	38	May 29	CLE		DET	L,1-4	CG	40	9.0	1	5	0	6	0
34	39	May 30 (1)	CLE		CHW	W,3-0	CG	38	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
35	40	May 30 (2)	CLE		CHW	L,0-4	CG	39	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
36	41	Jun 1	CLE	@	PHA	L,4-10	CG	41	8.0	1	3	0	4	0
37	42	Jun 3 (1)	CLE	@	PHA	W,6-5	CG	41	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
38	43	Jun 3 (2)	CLE	@	PHA	L,2-3	CG	0	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
39	44	Jun 4	CLE	@	WSH	W,10-2	CG	34	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
40	45	Jun 5	CLE	@	WSH	L,1-5	CG	0	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
41	46	Jun 6	CLE	@	WSH	L,0-4	CG	38	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
42	47	Jun 7	CLE	@	NYY	L,5-6	GF	4	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
43	49 (1)	Jun 9 (1)	CLE	@	NYY	W,9-5	CG	41	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
44	51 (1)	Jun 10	CLE	@	BOS	L,3-6	CG	36	8.0	2	3	0	5	0
45	52	Jun 11	CLE	@	BOS	L,5-10	CG	45	8.0	0	1	0	1	1
46	53	Jun 12	CLE	@	BOS	W,7-2	CG	36	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
47	54	Jun 14	CLE		PHA	L,3-5	CG	57	13.0	1	1	0	2	0
48	55	Jun 15	CLE		PHA	W,4-1	CG	34	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
49	56	Jun 16 (1)	CLE		PHA	W,2-1	CG	38	11.0	2	1	0	3	0
50	57	Jun 16 (2)	CLE		PHA	W,3-2	CG	24	6.0	0	1	0	1	1
51	58	Jun 20	CLE		WSH	W,4-3	CG	39	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
52	59	Jun 21	CLE		BOS	L,0-1	CG	34	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
53	60	Jun 22	CLE		BOS	W,4-3	CG	36	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
54	61	Jun 23 (1)	CLE		BOS	L,1-5	CG	41	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
55	62	Jun 23 (2)	CLE		BOS	L,0-6	CG	35	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
56	63	Jun 24	CLE		NYY	L,0-1	CG	37	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
57	64	Jun 25	CLE		NYY	W,8-3	CG	41	9.0	2	1	0	3	0
58	65	Jun 26	CLE		NYY	L,4-8	CG	43	9.0	1	3	1	5	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
59	71 (5)	Jul 2	CLE		SLB	W,4-2	GF	6	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
60	74 (2)	Jul 4 (2)	CLE	@	DET	W,9-8	GF	16	3.0	0	0	1	1	0
61	76 (1)	Jul 6	CLE		CHW	L,2-3	CG	36	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
62	77	Jul 7 (1)	CLE		CHW	W,3-2	CG	37	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
63	78	Jul 7 (2)	CLE		CHW	L,0-5	CG	38	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
64	79	Jul 11	CLE	@	NYY	L,1-9	CG	41	8.0	2	1	0	3	0
65	80	Jul 13	CLE	@	NYY	W,3-2	CG	38	9.0	1	2	0	3	1
66	81	Jul 14 (1)	CLE	@	BOS	L,10-11	CG	42	8.0	1	2	0	3	0
67	82	Jul 14 (2)	CLE	@	BOS	L,4-6	CG	35	8.0	1	3	0	4	1
68	83	Jul 16	CLE	@	BOS	W,6-3	CG	41	9.0	0	1	0	1	1
69	84	Jul 17	CLE	@	PHA	W,8-2	CG	36	9.0	2	3	1	6	0
70	85	Jul 18	CLE	@	PHA	W,7-3	CG	37	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
71	86	Jul 19	CLE	@	PHA	W,6-1	CG	35	9.0	0	4	0	4	0
72	87	Jul 20	CLE	@	WSH	W,10-2	CG	0	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
73	88	Jul 21 (1)	CLE	@	WSH	L,1-2	CG	35	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
74	89	Jul 21 (2)	CLE	@	WSH	L,5-7	GF	0		0	0	0	0	0
75	90	Jul 23	CLE		PHA	W,2-0	CG	32	9.0	3	3	0	6	1
76	91	Jul 24	CLE		PHA	W,1-0	CG	31	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
77	92	Jul 25	CLE		PHA	W,9-8	CG	45	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
78	93	Jul 26	CLE		WSH	L,4-5	CG	36	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
79	94	Jul 27	CLE		WSH	L,2-3	CG	37	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
80	95	Jul 28 (1)	CLE		WSH	W,2-0	CG	34	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
81	96	Jul 28 (2)	CLE		WSH	W,7-4	CG	36	9.0	0	0	1	1	0
82	97	Jul 29 (1)	CLE		WSH	L,1-2	CG	41	10.0	0	3	0	3	0
83	98	Jul 29 (2)	CLE		WSH	L,4-8	CG	41	9.0	2	4	0	6	0
84	99	Jul 30	CLE		BOS	L,0-4	CG	36	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
85	104 (4)	Aug 6	CLE	@	CHW	L,1-11	GS	33	5.0	0	2	0	2	0
86	105	Aug 7	CLE	@	CHW	L,3-4	CG	43	8.2	1	1	0	2	0
87	106	Aug 8 (1)	CLE	@	CHW	W,5-0	CG	0	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
88	107	Aug 8 (2)	CLE	@	CHW	L,6-7	CG	0	9.1	3	4	0	7	0
89	108	Aug 9	CLE	@	SLB	W,5-4	CG	0	9.0	1	3	0	4	0
90	109	Aug 10	CLE	@	SLB	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
91	110	Aug 11 (1)	CLE	@	SLB	L,2-3	CG	38	8.2	0	1	0	1	0
92	111	Aug 11 (2)	CLE	@	SLB	W,4-3	CG	32	7.0	2	0	0	2	0
93	112	Aug 12	CLE		DET	L,2-3	CG	39	10.0	0	1	1	2	0
94	113	Aug 13	CLE		DET	L,0-1	CG	34	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
95	114	Aug 14	CLE		DET	W,6-5	CG	0	12.0	2	4	0	6	0
96	115	Aug 15	CLE		SLB	W,3-2	CG	37	9.0	0	2	0	2	0
97	116	Aug 17	CLE		CHW	L,1-4	CG	36	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
98	117	Aug 18 (1)	CLE		CHW	L,4-6	CG	55	11.0	1	4	0	5	0
99	121 (3)	Aug 22	CLE	@	PHA	L,6-8	CG	40	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
100	122	Aug 23	CLE	@	PHA	L,0-1	CG	0	8.2	1	5	0	6	1
101	123	Aug 24	CLE	@	PHA	W,5-0	CG	37	9.0	0	3	0	3	0
102	124	Aug 25 (1)	CLE	@	BOS	L,1-2	CG	31	8.2	0	2	0	2	1
103	125	Aug 25 (2)	CLE	@	BOS	L,6-13	CG	42	8.0	0	4	0	4	0
104	126	Aug 26	CLE	@	BOS	L,1-5	CG	36	8.0	0	2	0	2	0
105	127	Aug 28	CLE	@	NYY	L,0-4	CG	35	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
106	128	Aug 29	CLE	@	NYY	L,1-9	CG	42	8.0	0	3	0	3	0
107	129	Aug 31	CLE	@	CHW	W,3-2	CG	37	9.0	1	1	0	2	1
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
108	130	Sep 1	CLE	@	CHW	L,1-4	CG	33	8.0	0	1	0	1	0
109	131	Sep 2 (1)	CLE	@	SLB	L,2-9	CG	0	8.0	1	1	1	3	0
110	137 (5)	Sep 6	CLE	@	DET	L,0-9	CG	0	8.0	2	3	1	6	0
111	138	Sep 7	CLE		SLB	L,1-4	CG	37	9.0	2	2	1	5	0
112	151 (12)	Sep 22 (1)	CLE		DET	L,0-3	CG	38	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
							112gm		954.0	112	195	11	318	18