by Mike SpohrBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff 1. If you're a baseball fan, you likely know Fritz Peterson, the New York Yankees All-Star pitcher who holds the record for the lowest career E.R.A. (2.52) at the original Yankee Stadium. But the REALLY memorable/shocking part of Peterson's life happened off the field. In 1969, the Yankees swung a trade for Dodgers' pitcher Mike Kevich, and he and Peterson quickly became fast friends. Their wives, Marilyn Peterson and Susan Kekich, also became friends, and the couples (and their children) all began spending a lot of time together. Eventually, things took a twist straight out of a soap opera when Mike hinted at being attracted to Marilyn. The two men began discussing their wives, and discovered they were more attracted to the other man's wife than their own. Soon the men were jokingly floating the idea of trading wives. And when their wives didn't seem totally opposed, the idea went from "joking" to "Could we actually do this?" AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler Finally, in the middle of the 1972 season, the pitchers each packed a bag, left home, and moved in with the other man's wife. "It was a husband trade," Fritz later said. "Mike for me." This wasn't just another baseball trade, though. The men essentially swapped lives. Fritz, for example, not only ended up living with a new wife, but two new kids (girls this time; he and Marilyn had boys) and even a new dog (swapping a poodle for a Bedlington Terrier). The agreement was that if any of the four became unhappy, they would all return to their original marriages. But when Mike and Marilyn's relationship quickly flamed out, Fritz and Susan had no interest in returning to the way things were. By Spring Training of the following year, news of the bizarre situation broke and the pitchers held a press conference. Now clearly resentful of each other, they tried to water down the scandal by calling the situation a love story and nothing dirty. It didn't work. Bettmann / Bettmann Archive Perhaps because of all the personal drama and media attention, both pitchers struggled mightily in 1973. The Yankees, likely tired of this weird-ass situation, traded Mike to Cleveland. They traded Fritz to Cleveland the following year too, but Mike was no longer there - he was pitching in Japan with his career on its last legs. Fritz's career ended soon, too, after the 1976 season. Fritz and Susan remained married until Fritz's death in 2023. Mike later moved to New Mexico and married again. In the 2010s, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck tried to make a movie about the saga, but it never got out of development hell. Frazer Harrison / Getty Images 2. Today you likely know Drew Barrymore as the slightly dorky mama bear who hosts The Drew Barrymore Show. She lived a VERY different life, though, in the '80s and '90s. After skyrocketing to fame as the six-year-old co-star of the global blockbuster E.T., Barrymore was introduced to the Hollywood party scene at a shockingly young age, including going to Studio 54 with her mother when she was still in elementary school. As she documented in her autobiography about that time, Little Girl Lost, she was already drinking alcohol by age 9 and experimenting with drugs soon after. And by age 12? She was addicted to cocaine. By 13, her life had spiraled enough that she entered rehab. Thankfully, Barrymore was able to get her life back on track, and even made a triumphant return to acting...but in a role that will make people in 2026 very uneasy. Ron Galella, Ltd. / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images In 1992, a 16-year-old Barrymore was cast in the erotic thriller Poison Ivy where she played a teen who seduces her best friend's dad and tries to destroy his life. Not long after the movie came out, Barrymore said the movie transformed how the industry saw her. "Once people started seeing a little bit of footage, [my agent] J.J. got all these calls, like, 'We've got this role for Drew as a Lolita-esque nymphet.' And people were coming up to me on the set, going, 'How does it feel to be a sex symbol?' I was like, 'Me?!'" In a sad case of history repeating itself, the entertainment industry had again thrust her into a far more adult life than she should have had. New Line Cinema 3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off star Matthew Broderick was behind the wheel of a car that crashed into an oncoming car, killing two people. It happened on August 5, 1987, when Broderick and his girlfriend Jennifer Grey (just weeks before the release of her classic film Dirty Dancing) were vacationing in Ireland. Broderick was driving a rental car when he drove into the wrong lane and collided with a car driven by Margaret Doherty, 63, and her daughter Anna Gallagher, 28. Both women were killed, while Broderick was unconscious and badly injured, leaving Grey to initially believe she was the lone survivor of the accident. Upon coming to, Broderick had amnesia and didn't remember the entire day of the accident, saying, "I don't remember even getting up in