With his wrinkled forehead, double chin and apparently gray sideburns, Wilbur Wood sure looks a lot older than 31 here.
June 30th, 1973 at "Oakland Stadium".
The Topps photographer got Wood on the day of his start, which may have been bad luck for Wood. He pitched well, but lost in a complete game to the defending champs, 3-2. Wood allowed just six hits but three were home runs, two by Reggie Jackson and one by Sal Bando. The win allowed the A's to regain first place from the White Sox. The Sox had been in first place for most of May and June, and had been 38-32 going into this game. They went 39-63 the rest of the way to sink to a 5th place finish.
In other news, there was a total eclipse of the sun for 92 minutes, the longest-duration total eclipse until 2150. The greatest part of the eclipse was over the Sahara desert in Niger. An American cruise ship with 2,000 scientists aboard included celebrities like Neil Armstrong and Isaac Asimov, as well as a teenager from the Bronx who won a scholarship to attend the cruise - Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Elsewhere, fighting increased in Cambodia and a plane crash in Jordan killed seven.
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