| 词条 | Ken Keltner |
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}}Kenneth Frederick Keltner (October 31, 1916 – December 12, 1991) was an American professional baseball player. He played almost his entire Major League Baseball career as a third baseman with the Cleveland Indians, until his final season when he played 13 games for the Boston Red Sox. He batted and threw right-handed.[1] A seven-time All-Star, Keltner is 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] Baseball careerBorn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Keltner began his professional baseball career in {{By|1936}} playing for his hometown team, the Milwaukee Brewers, then a minor league team.[2] He made a rapid ascent through the minor leagues, and in 1938, the Cleveland Indians invited him to their spring training camp.[2] The twenty-one-year-old Keltner made the team and played in 149 games that season, posting a .276 batting average with 26 home runs and 113 runs batted in.[1] On August 20, {{By|1938}}, as part of a publicity stunt by the Come to Cleveland Committee, Indians' catchers Frankie Pytlak and Hank Helf successfully caught baseballs dropped by Keltner from Cleveland's {{convert|708|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} Terminal Tower.[3] The {{convert|708|ft|m|adj=on}} drop broke the 555-foot, 30-year-old record set by Washington Senator catcher Gabby Street at the Washington Monument.[2] In 1939, Keltner improved his hitting statistics with a career-high .325 batting average along with 13 home runs and 97 runs batted in.[1] He also embellished his defensive reputation with a .974 fielding percentage, and leading American League third basemen with 40 double plays and 187 putouts, appearing in all 154 games.[2] Keltner earned his first All-Star berth in 1940.[4] In the 1941 All-Star Game, he spearheaded a ninth inning four-run rally as the American League fought back from a 5-3 deficit.[5] Keltner beat the throw to first base for an infield single to start the rally.[5] Three batters later, he scored on a groundout before Ted Williams followed with a two-out, game-ending, three-run home run.[5] Two weeks later, in a game against the New York Yankees on July 17, {{By|1941}}, Keltner became part of baseball history when he made two impressive, backhanded defensive plays against Joe DiMaggio, as the latter attempted to extend his 56-game hitting streak.[2][6] DiMaggio walked and grounded out in his other two plate appearances, as the record-setting hitting streak came to an end.[2] Keltner joined the United States Navy in {{By|1945}} and missed an entire season while serving in Hawaii.[2] He returned to play for the Indians in 1946, earning his sixth All-Star selection in the process.[7] Keltner had a career-season in 1948, placing third in the American League home runs with 31 and posting career-highs with 119 runs batted in, 91 runs, and 89 walks, and placed fifth in the league with a .522 slugging average, helping Cleveland earn a first-ever one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox.[8] The Indians won the game 8-3 behind knuckleballer Gene Bearden, with the help of Keltner's single, double, and 3-run home run over the Green Monster in Fenway Park.[9][10] The Indians then went on to defeat the Boston Braves in the 1948 World Series.[11] Due to injuries, Keltner appeared in only 80 games in 1949.[2] A .232 average with eight homers and 30 runs batted in prompted the Indians to release him after the season, replacing him at third base with Al Rosen.[2] He played with the Red Sox in 1950, appearing in only eight games as a third baseman and one as a first baseman (his only major league fielding appearance anywhere other than 1,500 games played at third base).[2] Keltner concluded his major league career at only age 33. He played one more season in the minor leagues with the Sacramento Solons in {{By|1951}} before retiring as a player.[2] Career statisticsIn a thirteen-season major league career, Keltner played in 1,526 games, accumulating 1,570 hits in 5,683 at bats for a .276 career batting average along with 163 home runs and 852 runs batted in.[1] Keltner had 69 triples, 308 doubles, accumulated 39 stolen bases and scored 737 runs.[1] He led American League third basemen four times in assists, five times in double plays, twice in fielding percentage and twice in range factor, ending his career with a .965 fielding percentage.[1][2] At the time of Keltner's retirement, only Willie Kamm and Heinie Groh had higher career fielding percentages among retired major league third basemen.[12] Keltner made 7 All-Star teams in 13 seasons. When he left the Indians, he was in the Top 5 in many of their all-time hitting records. Post-playing careerAfter his retirement as a player, Keltner served as a scout for the Indians and the Red Sox.[2] He was inducted into the Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fame in {{By|1970}}.[13] Keltner was also inducted into the Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame, the Ohio Baseball Hall of Fame and was named to the 100 Greatest Cleveland Indians in {{By|2001}}.[2][14] Keltner was the subject of a brief campaign for the Baseball Hall of Fame. While he was never a popular candidate, his candidacy gave rise to the Keltner List by Baseball historian Bill James - a list of questions designed to guide thinking on the Hall of Fame. James ranked Keltner 35th all-time among third baseman in his Historical Baseball Abstract.[15] Keltner died in his home state of Wisconsin at age 75 of a heart attack.[2] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/keltnke01.shtml|title=Ken Keltner Statistics and History|work=Baseball-Reference|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|accessdate=August 23, 2010}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 {{sabrbio|99338e60|Jim Nitz|20 July 2010}} 3. ^{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Bruce |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1985/03/11/620572/when-baseballs-fell-from-on-high-henry-helf-rose-to-the-occasion |title=When Baseballs Fell From On High, Henry Helf Rose To The Occasion |work=Sports Illustrated |date=March 11, 1985 |accessdate=May 7, 2017}} 4. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NLS/NLS194007090.shtml 1940 All-Star Game at Baseball Reference] 5. ^1 2 [https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ALS/ALS194107080.shtml 1941 All-Star Game at Baseball Reference] 6. ^{{cite news |last=Hauck |first=Larry |title=Two Ordinary Hurlers End DiMaggio's Streak |date=July 18, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aCBkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R3sNAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio's%20streak&pg=3282%2C2125007 |accessdate=February 24, 2016 |work=The Calgary Herald}} 7. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ALS/ALS194607090.shtml 1946 All-Star Game at Baseball Reference] 8. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1948-batting-leaders.shtml 1948 American League Batting Leaders at Baseball Reference] 9. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_i8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-CQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3922,3384968|title=Bearden, Boudreau, Keltner Share Honors as Indians Win|work=The Milwaukee Journal|date=October 5, 1948|page=8}} 10. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS194810040.shtml October 4, 1948 Indians-Red Sox box score at Baseball Reference] 11. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1948_WS.shtml 1948 World Series at Baseball Reference] 12. ^[https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/fielding_perc_3b_career.shtml Career Leaders in Fielding Percentage for Third Basemen at Baseball Reference] 13. ^Ken Keltner at the Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fame {{webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5wWezSQHg?url=http://www.sportsinwisconsin.com/hall_fame/members_byyear |date=2011-02-15 }} 14. ^100 Greatest Indians at http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com 15. ^{{cite book |author=James, Bill |title=The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |year=2001 |page= 554 |isbn=0-684-80697-5}} External links{{Baseballstats | br=k/keltnke01 | fangraphs=1006821 | cube=13666}}
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