Pinky Higgins's Three-Home-Run Game, 1935
Pinky Higgins hit three home runs in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics against the Boston Red Sox on June 27, 1935. The Philadelphia Athletics won 14–2.
The game was played at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The announced attendance was 3,500. The game took 2h 12m. It was a day game.
Pinky Higgins did it twice in all. Wes Ferrell started for the Boston Red Sox. Red Ormsby 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
- Retrosheet, PHA193506270
- Retrosheet event files — event:PHA193506270
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