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Lou Gehrig Hits for the Cycle, 1937

DateAug 1, 1937
ScoreBrowns 5, Yankees 14
TypeCycle

Lou Gehrig hit for the cycle for the New York Yankees against the St. Louis Browns on August 1, 1937: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The New York Yankees won 14–5.

The game was played at Yankee Stadium I in New York. The announced attendance was 18,924. The game took 2h 13m. It was a day game.

Lou Gehrig did it twice in all. Lou Koupal started for the St. Louis Browns. Red Ormsby umpired behind the plate. It is the last of three cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, NYA193708010
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:NYA193708010
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