Harry Craft Hits for the Cycle, 1940
DateJun 8, 1940
TeamsBrooklyn Dodgers @ Cincinnati Reds
ScoreDodgers 2, Reds 23
Venue Crosley Field
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
- Retrosheet, CIN194006080
- Retrosheet event files — event:CIN194006080
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