Ken Keltner

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Keltner began his professional baseball career in 1936 playing for his hometown team, the Milwaukee Brewers, then a minor league team. He made a rapid ascent through the minor leagues, and in 1938, the Cleveland Indians invited him to their spring training camp. 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.\n', '

On August 20, 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 708-foot-tall (216 m) Terminal Tower. The 708-foot (216 m) drop broke the 555-foot, 30-year-old record set by Washington Senator catcher Gabby Street at the Washington Monument.\n', '

In 1939, Keltner improved his hitting statistics with a car…