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  1. 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 ...

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  2. Fritz Peterson. Fred Ingels Peterson (February 8, 1942 – October 19, 2023) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers from 1966 to 1976. Peterson was a southpaw starting pitcher who enjoyed his best success in 1970 with the Yankees when ...

  3. NEW YORK (AP) — Fritz Peterson, the New York Yankees pitcher who famously swapped wives and families with teammate Mike Kekich in 1973, has died. He was 81. Peterson died of lung cancer at his home in Winona, Minnesota, on Oct. 19, according to death records from the Winona County Vital Records Department. His body was cremated.

  4. 01. In 1973, Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, both pitchers for the New York Yankees, made headlines by swapping families. This included their wives, children, and even dogs. 02. The swap was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. It began in the summer of 1972 when the two families started spending a lot of time together.

  5. 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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  6. Jun 8, 2022 · Advertisement. 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 ...

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  8. Apr 10, 2019 · That was when two Yankees pitchers, Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, 40 percent of the team’s starting rotation, called a press conference to inform mind-boggled newsmen that they had traded ...