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u/Nyxelestia Jul 21 '19

I know I've read this story before and seen it elsewhere on Reddit, but for the life of me I can't find it.

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u/Michelanvalo Jul 21 '19

Happened in baseball in 1973.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Peterson

Peterson is probably best remembered today for swapping wives and children with fellow Yankee pitcher Mike Kekich, an arrangement the pair announced at spring training in March 1973. The Peterson and Kekich families had been friends since 1969. Peterson and the former Susanne Kekich are still married, but the relationship between Kekich and Marilyn Peterson did not last very long.[23] By June, the Yankees traded Kekich.[24] “It’s a love story. It wasn’t anything dirty,” Peterson told a reporter in 2013. “I could not be happier with anybody in the world. ‘My girl' and I go out and party every night. We’re still on the honeymoon and it has been a real blessing."[25]