Babe Herman Hits for the Cycle, 1931

Babe Herman hit for the cycle for the Brooklyn Robins against the Cincinnati Reds on May 18, 1931: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Brooklyn Robins won 14–4.

The game was played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The announced attendance was 5,000. The game took 1h 55m. It was a day game.

Babe Herman did it three times in all. Al Eckert started for the Cincinnati Reds. Cy Pfirman umpired behind the plate. It is the first of three cycles the archive records that season.