Pretty good shot with some batting practice activity in the background.
The back image comes from eBay; this copy is available for a $98 BIN price.
June 3, 1973. An up-and-down day for Bonds and the Giants as they hosted the Phillies. Bonds led off the game with a single and scored the game's first run. He singled again in the third but was picked off by Ken Brett. Brett shut down the Giants through the 8th, and even chipped in an RBI double as the Phillies pulled ahead 4-1. In the bottom of the ninth, Brett gave up a single to Dave Kingman and a HR to Dave Rader to cut it to 4-3. Mac Scarce came on in relief of Brett to face Willie McCovey, and walked him. This brought up Bobby Bonds with a chance to be the hero. Philly countered with Bill Wilson, who induced the speedy Bonds to hit into a 6-4-3 double play. Now an out away from defeat and down to their last at-bat, Tito Fuentes singled, bringing up Garry Maddox. Maddox hit a walk-off HR to win the game for the Giants.
In other news, 14 people were killed when a Soviet aircraft crashed at an air show in Paris; the CIA delivered it's memoranda on Watergate to the Senate Investigating Committee, indicating that they thought the affair was a matter of politics and not national security; and the Russian lunar rover Lunokhod 2 ended it's mission.
Dang. Bonds. Kingman. McCovey. Fuentes.
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The Giants were loaded in 1973.
Oh man, I would need a bunch of these to fill out my player collections: Grich, Sanguillen, Tiant, Speier, Bonds, Osteen, Palmer, Campaneris, Kessinger, Coleman, Fisk, Ferguson, and Bowa!
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