One of baseball’s most unusual trades happened 47 years ago.
New York Yankees Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich held separate press conferences during the 1973 spring training season announcing they had traded wives. Actually they had swapped entire families, including dogs.
“Unless people know the full details, it could turn out to be a nasty type of thing. Don’t say this was wife swapping, because it wasn’t. We didn’t swap wives, we swapped lives” – Kekich
The two men didn’t think their lives were particularly interesting but they were wrong. The story quickly gained attention.