Today in sports history -- Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich

On this date 35 years ago, New York Yankees lefty pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, close friends since 1969, announced that they had switched wives the previous October. In fact, they essentially traded off-the-field lives, moving into each other's houses, raising each other's kids and feeding each other's dogs.

Surprisingly enough, Peterson and Kekich's ex-wife, Susanne, are still married to this very day. Kekich and Peterson's ex-wife, Marilyn, never actually married; she got cold feet. Peterson later became a preacher, of all things, and Kekich became an insurance adjuster. They are no longer close, and have not been for some time.

There is a Cleveland connection to this bizarre story. Peterson was never the same after this swap, and the Yankees started looking to unload him. During Phil Seghi's early days as the Tribe's general manager, Seghi acquired Peterson in a very bad trade, sending future All-Star first baseman Chris Chambliss and pitcher Dick Tidrow to the Yankees for Peterson and three guys you've never heard of. Seghi would go on to preside over more than a decade of losing baseball in Cleveland, before stepping down in early 1986.