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Five-Home Run game

Salience Noteworthy
City/State/Country: Philadelphia, PA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Adult
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Lipman Pike hit 5 home runs for the Athletic BBC of Philadelphia on July 16, 1866, a feat never equaled.

Sources

Jerrold Casway, "Lipman Pike's Home Run Record-- Athletic vs. Danville", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 49-50.

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