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Earl Averill Hits for the Cycle, 1933

DateAug 17, 1933
ScoreAthletics 4, Indians 15
TypeCycle

Earl Averill hit for the cycle for the Cleveland Indians against the Philadelphia Athletics on August 17, 1933: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Cleveland Indians won 15–4.

The game was played at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland. The announced attendance was 7,000. The game took 1h 52m. It was a day game.

It was the only time Earl Averill managed it. George Earnshaw started for the Philadelphia Athletics. Red Ormsby umpired behind the plate. It is the seventh of eight cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CLE193308170
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CLE193308170
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