History
There's a sort of myth that hitting for a cycle - a single, double, triple, and home run in the same game - is an unusually rare accomplishment, far rarer than a no-hitter.
Actually, the two feats have just about the same rate of occurrence. There have been 229 no-hitters in the two existing major leagues, and players have hit for the cycle 237 times. (Players also hit for the cycle 18 times in the American Association, when that was a major league. I haven't been able to find a list of those players, however.)
Two players did it three times in their career: Bob Meusel of the New York Yankees, and Babe Herman, who twice hit for the cycle with the Brooklyn Dodgers and did it a third time with the Chicago Cubs.
Herman's two cycle performances for the Dodgers came in the same year, 1931. He's the only player to have done it twice in a single season in one of the modern major leagues. However, two other players did it for American Association teams: John Reilly, with Cincinnati in 1883, and Tip O'Neill, with St. Louis in 1887.
One of baseball's rarest accomplishments to hit for the cycle with a grand slam home run. That's been done only six times in major league history, by the following players:
| Jay Buhner | Seattle AL | 06-23-1993 |
| Jimmy Foxx | Philadelphia AL | 08-14-1933 |
| Nap Lajoie | Philadelphia AL | 07-30-1901 |
| Tony Lazzeri | New York AL | 06-03-1932 |
| Miguel Tejada | Oakland AL | 09-29-2001 |
| Bill Terry | New York NL | 05-29-1928 |