Joe DiMaggio Hits for the Cycle, 1948
Joe DiMaggio hit for the cycle for the New York Yankees against the Chicago White Sox on May 20, 1948: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The New York Yankees won 13–2.
The game was played at Comiskey Park I in Chicago. The announced attendance was 5,001. The game took 2h 26m. It was a day game.
Joe DiMaggio did it twice in all. Orval Grove started for the Chicago White Sox. Eddie Rommel umpired behind the plate. It is the first of three cycles the archive records that season.
Key figures
Hits for the Cycle
Sources
- Retrosheet, CHA194805200
- Retrosheet event files — event:CHA194805200
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