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...movie together and then went out partying. That was when the idea first came up. "We laughed about it like a bunch of high school kids," one of the four recalls. Six months later, the idea became a reality when New York Yankee Pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson swapped wives, Peterson's wife Marilyn moving in with Mike while Susanne Kekich went to live with Fritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Switch Pitchers | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Last week Mike and Fritz publicly acknowledged what Susanne, with a giggle, calls "the most unique trade in baseball history." The players also let it be known that the switch (an open secret in the baseball world for months) is already going sour. True, Fritz and Susanne are still living together. But Marilyn has gone home to her mother, leaving Mike, in his words, "out in the cold, the only one who has nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Switch Pitchers | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...other and, Kekich says, there was "a tremendous amount of affection and compatibility all around." Indeed there was. It became more than that about the time of the movie double date last year and really peaked in July. According to Susanne, "We left a party together and sat in Fritz's car considering the idea of going home with opposite partners." Deciding to discuss it further at a nearby restaurant, Susanne says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Switch Pitchers | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...Fritz and I went in one car and Mike and Marilyn in the other. They didn't show up for 2½ hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Switch Pitchers | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...Fritz takes the story from there: "Mike started to campaign for my wife about last August. He told me he loved Marilyn more than Susanne. There wasn't anything dirty about it." Within a month, Susanne told the New York Post, she and Fritz began sleeping together. But, she admits, "Mike and Marilyn had a much more romantic, exciting relationship than Fritz and I." She insists, nevertheless, that her affair "was not on the rebound because Mike and Marilyn fell in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Switch Pitchers | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

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