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Harry Craft Hits for the Cycle, 1940

DateJun 8, 1940
ScoreDodgers 2, Reds 23
TypeCycle

Harry Craft hit for the cycle for the Cincinnati Reds against the Brooklyn Dodgers on June 8, 1940: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Cincinnati Reds won 23–2.

The game was played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The announced attendance was 10,075. The game took 2h 19m. It was a day game.

It was the only time Harry Craft managed it. Freddie Fitzsimmons started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Beans Reardon umpired behind the plate. It is the first of five cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CIN194006080
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CIN194006080
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