Horne’s ‘home run cycle’ has yet to be replicated
Lisa Winston for MLB.com back in 2006:
On July 27, 1998, playing for the Arkansas Travelers of the Double-A Texas League, [Tyrone] Horne hit four home runs in a 13-4 victory at San Antonio.
Now, four-homer games by themselves are rare, but certainly not unprecedented. This year, there have been two such performances in the Minors (Ryan Harvey of the Daytona Cubs did it on July 28 and Alexis Gomez of the Toledo Mud Hens hit four on Aug. 7).
But Horne hit a two-run home run in the first inning, a grand slam in the second, a solo shot in the fifth and a three-run homer in the sixth.
In essence, he “homered for the cycle,” something never done before in the Majors or Minors and has not been duplicated since.
And it hasn’t been done in the six years since the article.
The rest of the piece is a nice feel-good story about Horne.