I don't think there are a lot of cards of Rose with a fielding glove. At this point in his career he was an outfielder.
April 3, 1973, according to the back.
Rose does not have any other cards with photos that appear to be from the same shoot, so I will assume this one is accurate.
This was two days before Opening Day, with the Reds getting ready to fly to Cincinnati for the traditional first game in the majors. Sparky Anderson was refusing to name the opening day starter, with reporters guessing Jack Billingham to be the most likely. Instead it was Don Gullett, who drove in the Reds' only run but lost to Juan Marichal, 4-1. Rose led off for the Reds and singled in the team's first at-bat of 1973, one of two hits for Rose.
In other news, Motorola VP Martin Cooper made the first ever cell phone call, using a device of his invention to call a rival at Bell Labs. Motorola had set up two temporary towers on Fifth Avenue to enable the call, with the expectation of building a network of towers in the city over the next five years. Due to technical and FCC hurdles, it took ten years before Motorola was able to launch the phone, doing so nationally, with a small but expanding network of towers. (When it was launched in 1973, the network in Motorola's home city of Chicago could only handle 23 calls at a time, though that number quickly grew much larger.) Other major news stories of the day came from India, where 35 women were killed when lightning struck an agricultural worker colony, and three demonstrators were killed by police in an uprising in the semi-independent state of Sikkim.
Old Martin Cooper really did humanity a disservice with that invention of his.
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