A trade for the ages

"It started as a joke ", Susan Kekich said. "It was an accident. After a while, we couldn't stop it" So, on October 1st, 1972, Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, a couple of of lefthanded Yankee pitchers, and their wives, Marilyn and Susan decided to trade mates.
 "It wasn't a wife swap, " Mike Kekich said. "It was a life swap." Actually, it was only the baseball players themselves who were traded. Their wives stayed in their respective homes, with their own children ( two each ) , and their family dogs. One of the conditions of this major league trade was that it would immediately be called off if any of the four players changed their minds.
  "It was all so beautiful, so romantic, so perfect for all of us " Susan Kekich recalled. "We seemed to have found perfect mates". However, after two months , the deal was cancelled and the players went back to their original wives. It seems the problems had arisen between Mike Kekich and Marilyn Peterson. "We started to butt heads", Mike remembers. "She worried about being divorced and it became too much for her."

    On the other hand, Fritz Peterson and Susan Kekich, despite the difficulties, were doing quite well. "I had never been sadder and never happier in my life, " Susan said, "I ran the gamut of every possible emotion ".
   "Marilyn ultimately got divorced from Fritz and Susan Kekich renewed their contract and are still together.

Now, Fritz is a born again Christian. Go figure.