[Kawika]

Thanks, guys. Very arty the way the ump, the catcher and Combs are all tilting their heads at the same angle, one neutral, one thinking "oh shit" and the third thinking "Hot Damn!".

I unfortunately don't have access to the New York Times Archives anymore so I wasn't able to look up the sports article but I saw at Retrosheet that the Yanks swept a doubleheader from the A's that day, a Sunday. Combs hit two singles in 4 AB's in the first game and was one-for-three in the second, a lead-off triple in the NY half of the first. I am thinking this photo is the triple. It's got the intensity. (The man off third is positioned like a coach, not like a baserunner following the crack of a bat).

I corrected the spelling of Comb's name in my first post. Had Earl Coombs. It's Earle Combs.