S21E07: The Yankees Wife Swap

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On March 5, 1973, Major League Baseball hosted what had to be the wildest pair of press conferences in its history. Yankees southpaw pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, for reasons that defy any kind of good explanation, revealed to reporters from spring training that they had not merely swapped wives with each other, but lives. Months before, Mike had moved into Fritz's home, with Fritz's wife, two children, and dog, and Fritz had moved into Mike's, with Mike's wife, his two children, and his dog. It set off a firestorm that tanked both of their careers, and left a stadium's worth of bad feelings between the two old friends.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:07.5	My name is Alicia. We are thrilled that you're joining us today for yet another tale of marital misadventure and love gone wrong.
0:15.2	Stacey, you've got a sports ball story for us this week.
0:18.9	I do. I haven't almost forgotten scandal from the land of baseball.
0:23.2	And possibly the strangest tale of marital misadventure we've ever bumped into in this show,
0:27.8	which is saying a lot. You ain't kidding. But hey, it worked out for half of our quartet of characters,
0:33.2	so I guess that's something. Before we throw the first pitch, though, Alicia, is that a magic mirror that I spy?
0:39.3	It is huge thanks and shoutouts to our newest supporters over at patreon.com slash trashy divorces,
0:46.8	getting bonus episodes, dumpster dives, Zoom salons, and more.
0:51.3	Huge, huge thanks to Beth, Joanna H. and Alan C. And to our very sweetest friend,
0:58.6	Teresa, you and yours are in our hearts today. We are thinking of you and sending all the love
1:05.2	your way, friend. All right, Alicia, if I'm going to take you out to the ballpark, what do we need to do?
1:12.0	You really are sportsing today. We got to go, go, go.
1:30.6	Oh, Stacey, I got my peanuts and crackerjacks.
1:32.2	Take me out to the ballgame.
1:39.1	Alicia, there's been a lot of chatter lately about the private lives of big-time sports figures and, you know, a shirtless brother.
1:45.7	But to be clear, for all the Twitter, Sturm and Drang about Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, their relationship is downright conventional compared to the story I'm about to tell you.
1:51.1	And a quick shout out to Sam and Allie from the podcast I'm Horrified, which is back and
1:55.6	as wonderful as ever, for telling us about baseball's trashiest scandal of 1973.
2:02.0	Love Sam and Allie, and we are going back in time today.
2:05.4	Oh, yeah. I'm talking. I'm talking about the Yankees' wife swap.
2:09.8	What? Yankees' wife swap.
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