Front of card - from TCDB.
TCDB didn't have any back scans, only one I could find was this from eBay:
Topps gives the date of this shot as March 24, 1973. The Angels were in Palm Springs that day, hosting the SF Giants who beat them at the plate, 14-4. The big story, however, was the two bench-clearing brawls in the fourth inning. The fisticuffs started when the Giants' Tito Fuentes, who had tripled in his first at-bat, was hit by a pitch from the Angels' Clyde Wright. Fuentes charged the mound and the benches cleared. Wright was kicked in the head in the brawl and needed three stitches. Giants manager Charlie Fox blamed Angels catcher Jack Hiatt, who used to play for him, and heckled Hiatt from the dugout, then came out onto the field to start the second fight. Fox, Wright, Fuentes and Hiatt were all ejected.
In other news, negotiations continued over POWs in Vietnam, two banks lowered their prime rate, Cleveland traded Ray Fosse to Oakland for George Hendrick, and French wrestler André "The Giant" Roussimoff made his US debut in Philadelphia.
Don't hear about opposing managers heckling players very often. I wonder if Hiatt ever got a shot in against Fox.
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