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Merv Connors's Three-Home-Run Game, 1938

DateSep 17, 1938
ScoreAthletics 4, White Sox 7
TypeMulti homer

Merv Connors hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago White Sox against the Philadelphia Athletics on September 17, 1938. The Chicago White Sox won 7–4.

The game was played at Comiskey Park I in Chicago. The announced attendance was 3,000. The game took 1h 43m. It was a day game.

It was the only time Merv Connors managed it. Jim Reninger started for the Philadelphia Athletics. George Pipgras umpired behind the plate. It is the last of three three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHA193809172
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHA193809172
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