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...disgusting wife-swapping deal between Yankee Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich [March 19]: I would like to see Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn throw these two immature clowns out of the major leagues, not so much for what they did but for being stupid enough to let the whole country know about it. Baseball is not only our most popular sport, but it has always been our cleanest, physically and morally. These men have done a disservice to baseball and the kids who love...
...saying we should elect Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson to the Hall of Fame, but whatever postgame activity they choose is their business...
During the last couple of years the Crimson has not had the kind of talent it did during the late 60s. In 1969, for example, Cleve Livingston, Mike Livingston, Fritz Hobbs and Bill Hobbs all rowed for Harvard. Every one of those four and the coxswain from that year. Paul Hoffman, were in the Olympic boat at Munich...
...were thrillingly in love. I thought it was so beautiful." They all thought it so beautiful, in fact, that they contemplated not only a double divorce but a double wedding. Then the glow faded. On December 5, they switched back to their original partners, but "Marilyn cried for Mike," Fritz says, and the attempted reconciliation lasted only nine days. On December 14, there was another, presumably last switch. But Marilyn, influenced by what Mike calls her "background," felt too guilty to continue living with him and moved...
...baseball players are part of the now world." Catcher Thurman Munson agreed. "It ain't going to bother me," he said. "The only thing that's going to bother me is what they do on the mound." Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn predicted a "strained relationship" between Teammates Fritz and Mike ("I'd like to kill him," Mike said furiously). Nonetheless Yankee General Manager Lee MacPhail dismissed rumors that one of the pitchers would soon be involved in a conventional trade to avoid dissension. But he did admit to one concern: "We may have to call off Family...