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Win–loss record
  
101–112

Role
  
Baseball athlete

Name
  
Alex Kellner

Strikeouts
  
816

Earned run average
  
4.41


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Died
  
May 3, 1996, Tucson, Arizona, United States

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Alexander Raymond Kellner (August 26, 1924 – May 3, 1996) was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics (1948–1958), Cincinnati Redlegs (1958), and St. Louis Cardinals (1959). Kellner batted right-handed and threw left-handed. He was born in Tucson, Arizona. His younger brother, Walt, also was a major league pitcher.

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In a 12-season career, Kellner posted a 101–112 record with 816 strikeouts and a 4.17 ERA in 1,849⅓ innings pitched. He won 20 games for the Athletics in 1949.

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Kellner died in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 71.

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Best season

  • 1949: 20 wins, 37 games started, 19 complete games, 245 innings pitched (all career-highs)

    • Highlights

  • 1949 American League All-Star
  • In his 1949 rookie season became the Athletics first 20-game winner since Lefty Grove did it in 1933
  • Gave the Athletics their first victory at Fenway Park in three years, beating the Boston Red Sox and Mel Parnell, 6–3, breaking Parnell's 10-winning streak over Philadelphia, and becoming the third left-hander in four seasons to pitch a complete game in Boston April 20, 1951
  • Pitched a one-hit 7–0 shutout against the Washington Senators, allowing only a single by Wayne Terwilliger in the eighth inning, April 20, 1954
  • A good hitting-pitcher, compiled a .215 batting average (138-for-643) with four home runs, 57 RBI, 49 runs, a triple and 16 doubles

    • Family

    One of three sons (four children) of John Justus and Julietta (Garcia) Kellner, in Tucson, Arizona. His paternal great-grandfather, Johann Justus Kellner, a German immigrant, had arrived in central Texas in 1845. His older brother, Walt, also was a major league pitcher. The two were teammates in 1952 and 1953.

    References

    Alex Kellner Wikipedia
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