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Lou Gehrig Hits for the Cycle, 1934

DateJun 25, 1934
ScoreWhite Sox 2, Yankees 13
TypeCycle

Lou Gehrig hit for the cycle for the New York Yankees against the Chicago White Sox on June 25, 1934: 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 Yankee Stadium I in New York. The announced attendance was 4,000. The game took 1h 54m. It was a day game.

Lou Gehrig did it twice in all. George Earnshaw started for the Chicago White Sox. George Moriarty umpired behind the plate. It is the second of three cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, NYA193406250
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:NYA193406250
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