{"id":28161,"date":"2024-04-12T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=28161"},"modified":"2024-04-12T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:00:14","slug":"obit-watch-april-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=28161","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: April 12, 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert MacNeil<\/a>, of “The MacNeil\/Lehrer NewsHour” fame. NYT<\/strong> (archived)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the eve of his retirement from the broadcast in October 1995 to concentrate on writing, he was asked why TheMacNeil\/Lehrer NewsHour gave \u201cvery little coverage\u201d to the O.J. Simpson story.<\/a>
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t normally cover big murder stories, for one thing \u2026 It is inconceivable to me that a generation ago, NBC News and CBS News would night after night have said to their audience, \u2018This is the most important thing that happened in the world today,\u2019 by leading with Simpson and coming back to it later in the program,\u201d he told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting to me is how frightened the mainstream media are of the tabloid shows and the new networks.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was also in the motorcade when JFK was shot.<\/p>\n

Eleanor Coppola<\/a>. NYT<\/strong> (archived)<\/a>. IMDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI may hold the world\u2019s record for the person who has made the most documentaries about their family directing films,\u201d she said. Her career, she wrote in \u201cNotes on a Life,\u201d a 2008 book, reflected that \u201cI am an observer at heart, who has the impulse to record what I see around me.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fritz Peterson<\/a>, Yankees pitcher and baseball footnote.<\/p>\n

The southpaw was traded to Cleveland ahead of the 1974 season, ending his pinstripes tenure after nine seasons, going 109-106 with a 3.10 ERA \u2014 and an original Yankee Stadium-record 2.52 ERA in home games.<\/a>
\nHe last pitched for the Rangers in the 1976 season, accumulating a 133-131 record with a 3.30 ERA and seven seasons of 12-plus wins.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was also involved in the strangest trade in baseball history.<\/p>\n

Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson were friends. They hung out together with their wives. One thing led to another, and this was the 1970s…<\/p>\n

On March 4, 1973, the ballplayers held separate press conferences to announce they\u2019d swapped wives, kids and even their dogs \u2014 a tale the likes of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck once hoped to turn into a movie.<\/a>
\n\u201cActually, it was a husband trade \u2014 Mike for me or me for Mike,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cIt\u2019s a love story. It wasn\u2019t anything dirty.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fritz Peterson and Susanne, Kekich’s wife, married a year later. As far as I can tell, they stayed married. Mike Kekich and Marilyn, Peterson’s wife, broke up a few months after the press conference.<\/p>\n

Fritz Peterson’s Baseball Reference page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert MacNeil, of “The MacNeil\/Lehrer NewsHour” fame. NYT (archived). On the eve of his retirement from the broadcast in October 1995 to concentrate on writing, he was asked why TheMacNeil\/Lehrer NewsHour gave \u201cvery little coverage\u201d to the O.J. Simpson story. \u201cWe don\u2019t normally cover big murder stories, for one thing \u2026 It is inconceivable to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28162,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions\/28162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}