June 3, 1932

[fan_since79]

Lou Gehrig becomes the first player in the 20th century to hit four home runs in a game.

 

Tony Lazzeri hits for a natural cycle ending in a grand slam, the only time in baseball history that feat has been accomplished.

 

Yankees and A's combine for 33 runs and 36 hits.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA193206030.shtml

[ELEVEN]

Mang.

[Redondo]

Can you imagine being at one of those games? How cool that would have been

[Angelsjunky]

I vaguely remember Mark Whiten hitting four homers in a game back in the 90s.

[CaliAngel]

Lol has nobody heard mang before?

[fan_since79]

Gehrig might have had five home runs, but Al Simmons made a spectacular one-handed catch of his 9th-inning drive to the deepest part of center field in Shibe Park. At that time the center field wall was 468 feet from home plate. It would probably have gone for an inside-the-park HR.

 

It was Gehrig's greatest day and he still holds the Yankee record of 16 total bases in a single game.

Edited June 3, 2015 by fan_since79

[shellback]

thanks for posting this. i love baseball history- to the point of sometimes just reading the baseball encyclopedia.

jimmy foxx (who albert tied last night for # of career HR) was a GREAT hitter of the pelota and is also worth a look.

[fan_since79]

The Yankees set a record that day with 50 total bases. Both teams combined for a major league record of 77 total bases.

[Angel Oracle]

Roids were around in 1932?

[fan_since79]

Two more Gehrig stats:

 

He AVERAGED 147 RBI over his 13 full major league seasons.

 

He has the best RBI/games ratio in baseball history, 1,995 RBI in 2,164 games. By comparison, Barry Bonds took 822 more games to get one more career RBI than Gehrig.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Ruth 2-5 with bombsauce

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Arod might pull that off this season.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Gehrig might have had five home runs, but Al Simmons made a spectacular one-handed catch of his 9th-inning drive to the deepest part of center field in Shibe Park. At that time the center field wall was 468 feet from home plate. It would probably have gone for an inside-the-park HR.

 

 

I remember watching games televised from Yankee Stadium in the 1960s when CF was that deep. The monoliths in Monument Park were in the field of play, which could result in a whole lot of fun if the ball was hit back there.

 

Edited June 4, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

[fan_since79]

The ironic thing about that game is it was buried on the back pages of the sports section, as legendary NY Giants manager John McGraw picked that day to retire unexpectedly.

[Redondo]

Two more Gehrig stats:

 

He AVERAGED 147 RBI over his 13 full major league seasons.

 

He has the best RBI/games ratio in baseball history, 1,995 RBI in 2,164 games. By comparison, Barry Bonds took 822 more games to get one more career RBI than Gehrig.

 

Absolutely amazing

[fan_since79]

The original dimensions of Shibe Park in Philadelphia.

 

[Bruce Nye]

I was there and watched it in black & white.  Technicolor had't been invented yet.

[Jason]

Can you imagine being at one of those games? How cool that would have been

Glad I wasn't because I'd probably be dead now.

[JAHV76]

Roids were around in 1932?

They were called a greenies back then.

[Dick B Back]

They were called a greenies back then.

The don't think greenies would make your head the size of a watermelon.

[Lou]

greenies weren't anything close to be roids

[Lou]

Vin Scully announced he would come back for another year as the voice dodgers

[Docwaukee]

Managers were Joe McCarthy and Connie Mack.  

 

Gehrig hit behind guys with a .400, .400, and .475 career obp.  That'll get you some rbi.  

[Lou]

April 29, 1992 

[fan_since79]

April 29, 1992 

 

L.A. riots?