Torre daughter catches baby falling from 2nd floor
The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre is getting props from her dad for catching a baby boy who had tumbled off a second-floor fire escape in Brooklyn.
Torre said in a statement Wednesday that he was ''very proud of my daughter Cristina's actions today during an incident in Brooklyn involving a small child.''
Torre is now Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations.
"I didn't really know what was going to happen. ... You just move into action - you don't really think about it,'' Cristina Torre told the Daily News of New York.
She was having coffee at a cupcake shop when bystanders saw the 1-year-old dangling from an awning of a frozen yogurt store next door.
''I'm talking to him saying, `Don't come down, stay there,''' she said. ''He helped himself with his arms. He was dangling. I knew he would be flipping very soon.''
She said the child ''literally landed in my arms.'' Torre credited her father for her ''good hand-eye coordination.''
According to police, the child somehow climbed onto the fire escape. He was in stable condition.
The parents were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment.
