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Babe Herman Hits for the Cycle, 1933

DateSep 30, 1933
ScoreCubs 12, Cardinals 2
TypeCycle

Babe Herman hit for the cycle for the Chicago Cubs against the St. Louis Cardinals on September 30, 1933: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Chicago Cubs won 12–2.

The game was played at Sportsman's Park III in St. Louis. The announced attendance was 3,500. The game took 2h 12m. It was a day game.

Babe Herman did it three times in all. Dizzy Dean started for the St. Louis Cardinals. Beans Reardon umpired behind the plate. It is the last of eight cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, SLN193309300
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:SLN193309300
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