Two Yankee pitchers traded LIVES!
If this sounds strange, it's because it is. In 1973, Yankee pitchers Fritz
Peterson and Mike Kekich called a press conference where they announced that
they had traded families. The men were going to swap wives, children and even
pets.
The two men had been inseparable since 1969, and the families had spent a
lot of time together. One time, during a double date, they joked about
wife-swapping. According to the report, the swap occurred during the summer of
1972, and then made the change official in October of that year, and they made
their press conference the year after.
The trade ended up working better for Peterson, because he's still married
to his swapped wife, and had 4 kids. Kekich divorced soon after.
