This Day in Baseball: Reilly Repeats Hitting for the Cycle

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

On September 19, 1883 at the Bank Street Grounds, the Red Stockings’ John Reilly completed his second cycle in eight days as Cincinnati beat Philadelphia, 12-3, at the Bank Street Grounds. The previous week, the 24-year-old first baseman collected three singles, a double, a triple, and a homer in a 27-5 rout of Pittsburgh Alleghenys.

John Reilly (Library of Congress / public domain)