There's a lot of Reggie Jackson in that. He hits the homer (can tell by the trot), and maybe strikes out later (that's his swing-and-miss and check swing). Otherwise, I can't see nothin'.
Watching again, he does strike out. And it's between 1973 and 1975 because the tyke I assume is a young Ken Arneson is wearing a World Champs t-shirt, so that plus Reggie limits it to those three years following Oakland's first championship in 1972. That Reggie homers and Ks, however, aint' gonna help narrow it down too much none.
OK, I guess YouTube's conversion made the big clue too hard to see. There's a larger 18MB version of this here, for those few of you with the bandwidth and the interest:
4 Ah, I think I've solved it, but I'll let other's play. If I'm right, that's not Reggie who hit the homer after all (though that is him striking out).
But get the guy with the white hair OUT OF THE FRAME!!!
https://static.baseballtoaster.com/blogs/humbug/mpg/Mov15.mpg
Just to correct myself in 3 , young Kenny isn't wearing a World Champs t-shirt, he's clutching what looks like a yearbook to his chest, cover out.
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