In 1973, which two baseball players traded their wives, their two children, and even their dogs?
Indeed, at a time when wife-swapping was a hot topic — and a sign, perhaps, that the sexual revolution had gone too far — Peterson and teammate Mike Kekich took the practice to a whole new level. The two southpaws moved into each other’s homes and essentially exchanged living situations, much to the shock of the baseball world. As one Yankee official famously put it, “We might have to call off Family Day.” The controversy has long since slipped off the sports pages. But even now, more than three decades later, it overshadows Peterson’s life. “Hey, I’ve got a sense of humor. But it’s still hard for me to laugh about some of it,” Peterson said at a restaurant in Hoboken. He was just a few miles from Yankee Stadium, where he was cheered as an All-Star and, later, booed relentlessly as baseball’s most notorious swinger. In the years since, Peterson has rarely talked about his private life. He married the former Susan Kekich, retired from baseball in ’76, became an evangelical Christian,
