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Bob Meusel Hits for the Cycle, 1921

DateMay 7, 1921
ScoreYankees 6, Senators 5
TypeCycle

Bob Meusel hit for the cycle for the New York Yankees against the Washington Senators on May 7, 1921: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The New York Yankees won 6–5.

The game was played at Griffith Stadium in Washington. The announced attendance was 15,000. The game took 2h 10m. It was a day game.

Bob Meusel did it three times in all. Walter Johnson started for the Washington Senators. Bill Dinneen umpired behind the plate. It is the first of four cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, WS1192105070
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:WS1192105070
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