Front scan from TCDB.
Only back photo I could find was of a graded copy, sold by Memory Lane Auctions last year for $420!
March 19, 1973, according to Topps. From earlier posts we've seen that the spring training dates aren't always right. Don't know if this one is or not, but in an odd coincidence, the Sports Illustrated with that cover date (which I believe would have been published a few days earlier) had an article about Sanguillen replacing the late Roberto Clemente in right field. The next day, March 20, Clemente was officially elected into the Hall of Fame. On the field, the Pirates beat the Royals 8-3.
There is certainly a chance this might be an older photo. Sanguillen's uniform and the background are similar enough to his 1973 card to open up the possibility, though it's impossible to say for sure.
In other news, 58 people were killed in a plane crash in South Vietnam, 50 were killed at gas explosions in a mine in India, and baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn announced that he was "appalled" by the wife-swap by Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson but said the commissioner's office had no authority to intervene in the matter.
The wife-swap is one of the most interesting baseball stories I've ever heard.
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