Brooks Robinson Hits for the Cycle, 1960
Brooks Robinson hit for the cycle for the Baltimore Orioles against the Chicago White Sox on July 15, 1960: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Baltimore Orioles won 5–2.
The game was played at Comiskey Park I in Chicago. The announced attendance was 43,704. The game took 2h 26m. It was a night game.
It was the only time Brooks Robinson managed it. Billy Pierce started for the Chicago White Sox. Bill McKinley umpired behind the plate. It is the first of two cycles the archive records that season.
Key figures
Hits for the Cycle
Sources
- Retrosheet, CHA196007150
- Retrosheet event files — event:CHA196007150
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