July 19, 1940: Yankees’ backup backstop Buddy Rosar hits for the cycle
The New York Yankees entered 1940 as baseball’s first-ever…
May 5, 1939: Athletics’ Sam Chapman snaps 1-for-16 start to season by hitting for the cycle
Twelve games into the 1939 season found both the Philadelphia…
June 15, 1940: Harry Danning’s cycle leads Giants rout after Pirates miss batting practice
On June 15, 1940, Mother Nature must have been a New York fan.…
August 6, 1933: Athletics rookie Mike Higgins hits for the cycle as Foxx pads Triple Crown numbers against Senators
It was the 101st game of the 1933 season for the Philadelphia…
July 12, 1938: Sloppy Cleveland defense overshadows Odell Hale’s cycle against Senators
On July 12, 1938, approximately 10,000 fans entered Griffith…
May 24, 1936: Sam Leslie’s career-high five hits result in cycle as Giants pound Phillies
Sam Leslie played parts of 10 seasons in the major leagues. He…
September 30, 1933: Babe Herman’s third career cycle leads Cubs to third-place money
By September 30, the next-to-last day of the regular season in…
May 26, 1933: Chuck Klein homers in 13th to hit for the cycle but Phillies fall to Cardinals
In a “valiant effort to prevent defeat,”1 Philadelphia’s…
June 10, 1934: Doc Cramer hits for the cycle, but Lou Gehrig’s grand slam wins game
The saying goes, “Once is a chance. Twice is a coincidence.…
August 2, 1933: Mickey Cochrane ‘paces mates with bludgeon,’ hits for second career cycle
As August 1933 began, the race for the American League pennant…
May 27, 1939: Tigers’ Charlie Gehringer hits for a natural cycle
On May 12, 1939, the St. Louis Browns hosted the Detroit Tigers…
August 17, 1933: Earl Averill hits for the cycle as Indians ‘bombard’ A’s
A major-league record eight batters hit for the cycle in 1933.1…
June 8, 1940: Reds’ Harry Craft hits for cycle as ‘our lads annihilate Dodgers’
Baseball fans are usually divided into two camps: those who enjoy…
July 19, 1939: Arky Vaughan hits for reverse natural cycle, leads Pirates past crippled Giants
The July 20, 1939, headline in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette read,…
June 29, 1935: Joe Medwick hits for the cycle but Cardinals fall to Reds
With only a little over a week until the 1935 All-Star Game,…
June 24, 1933: Arky Vaughan hits for the cycle in Pirates’ blowout win in Brooklyn
The Pittsburgh Pirates were nursing a four-game losing streak…
July 9, 1937: Joe DiMaggio hits two homers as part of cycle
The Associated Press referred to Joe DiMaggio as “Murderers’…
July 13, 1940: Johnny Mize’s cycle boosts Cardinals in walk-off win over Giants
The New York Times described the outcome of a 1940 midseason…
August 2, 1940: Joe Cronin hits for second career cycle in Red Sox-Tigers slugfest
A modest crowd of 8,693 passed the turnstiles at Briggs Stadium…
April 20, 1937: Detroit’s Gee Walker hits for the cycle on Opening Day
The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians were coming off second-…
August 19, 1934: Red Sox rookie Moose Solters hits for the cycle before a record Fenway crowd of 46,995
“Boston went baseball crazy again yesterday,” exclaimed the…
August 14, 1933: Foxx hits for the cycle, drives in record 9 runs
Four months into another season of mashing American League pitching,…
June 25, 1934: Lou Gehrig ‘accidentally’ hits for the cycle
The second-place New York Yankees hosted the last-place Chicago…
August 1, 1937: Gehrig hits for the cycle but DiMaggio’s home run grabs headlines
Lou Gehrig became the second New York Yankees player to hit for…