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Mar 27, 2023 · Following their controversial wife swap before the 1973 MLB season, the two pitchers had very different fortunes. Fritz Peterson was a starter for the New York Yankees from 1966 to 1974 and had a ...
Jun 8, 2022 · Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich were pitchers for the New York Yankees. In 1973, the two athletes called for a press conference and revealed that they had swapped wives and families, as reported by New York Magazine. The public was surprised; some speculated on the reasons behind the swap, while others were simply puzzled about the situation.
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Apr 9, 2018 · To former Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, it was a simple and sensible thing. To the country it was a scandal of epic proportions, the likes of which had never been seen before. It started innocently enough on July 15, 1972. New York Post sportswriter Maury Allen invited Fritz Peterson and his wife Marilyn over for a barbecue ...
Mar 5, 2013 · Forty years ago, news of one of baseball’s stranger and more bizarre off-field stories first broke. There’s never been another story quite like it. On March 5, 1973, reports came out that Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson had swapped wives. Heck, they swapped entire families—wives, children, and even family dogs went in the ...
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Mar 24, 2017 · Although it became public in March 1973, the swap actually occurred in the summer of ‘72. “It just happened. It wasn’t planned,” said Peterson, who won 109 games for the Yankees and ...
Apr 10, 2019 · Much had happened in the interim. The couples did “swap lives,” moving in with each other’s spouses in the fall of 1972, with differing degrees of success. Peterson and Susanne Kekich were ...
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Jul 20, 2020 · An avant garde wife swap between two Yankees pitchers, Mike Kekich and Fritz (Fred) Peterson, became public in March 1973 just before the beginning of the regular season. The two teammates ...
