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Jimmie Foxx Hits for the Cycle, 1933

DateAug 14, 1933
ScoreAthletics 11, Indians 5
TypeCycle

Jimmie Foxx hit for the cycle for the Philadelphia Athletics against the Cleveland Indians on August 14, 1933: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Philadelphia Athletics won 11–5.

The game was played at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland. The announced attendance was 2,000. The game took 1h 55m. It was a day game.

It was the only time Jimmie Foxx managed it. Willis Hudlin started for the Cleveland Indians. Brick Owens umpired behind the plate. It is the sixth of eight cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CLE193308140
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CLE193308140
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