Texas league slugger breaks home run record

Two weeks after breaking the Texas League home run record that had stood for 32 years, Ken Guettler hit his sixtieth round-tripper of the season on Aug. 26, 1956. Still alive and kicking in Fort Worth, Clarence “Big Boy” Kraft had no comment on the day his best known achievement was erased from the record book. Like his legion of fans, the legendary slugger of the 1920’s probably believed it…