Maury Allen, the longtime New York Post sportswriter, who lost his battle with lymphoma 3 October, had the peculiar fortune of priviness to and then shying away from breaking the story of the no-questions-asked weirdest and most troubling trade in baseball history. The traders, in essence, were Suzanne Kekich and Marilyn Peterson. Wives, respectively, of Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson. Allen himself had had a serious whiff of trade wind in July 1972, on a Yankee off day, when he hosted a little house party and among the guests were the Petersons and the Kekiches, the latter present...