Kenton L. Boyer

(1931-1982) lived in Omaha. Professional baseball player, coach, manager, played 15 seasons in the major leagues as a third baseman, compiling a .287 career batting average, receiving five Gold Glove awards, and leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a world championship in 1964; played for Omaha of the Class A Western League in 1951. Consult Current Biography (1966) 26-28 and Ralph Hickok, A Who's Who of Sports Champions (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) 88 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 133-134.

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