Hey Man, Nice Catch! (Wizbang)

New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza and New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada will have to fight it out for second billing as New York's top catcher for a little while. There's a new catcher in town and his name is Felix Vazquez. He made the most important catch of all yesterday - a newborn baby. From The New York Daily News:

With flames raging behind her, Bronx mom Tracinda Foxe held her newborn son out of her third-floor window yesterday, hoping to get air back into his tiny lungs, when she saw a crowd gathered below.

She prayed. And then Foxe did the only thing she thought she could do to save her son: She dropped him.

...One-month-old Eric Guzman fell 30 feet through the frigid morning air - and, miraculously, landed safely in the arms of Felix Vazquez, a city Housing Authority supervisor.

"I didn't think - I just wanted to get him," said Vazquez, who, appropriately enough, is the catcher on the nearby Forest Houses baseball team. "I just reacted."

The grab was recorded by a surveillance camera.

Nice catch Felix!

See the video.

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Comments (10)

What's up with stories of p... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by SilverBubble | December 15, 2005 3:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

SilverBubble:

What's up with stories of people falling and surviving lately?

Anyway, that was a good catch.

Posted on December 15, 2005 15:15

Good thing he was a basebal... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by Victor | December 15, 2005 3:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Victor:

Good thing he was a baseball player and not a football player ;)

Posted on December 15, 2005 15:23

He should get the diamond r... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by Steve | December 15, 2005 4:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Steve:

He should get the diamond ring!

Posted on December 15, 2005 16:41

Good thing Carlos Beltran a... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by Peter F. | December 15, 2005 6:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Peter F.:

Good thing Carlos Beltran and Mike Cameron weren't going after the kid.

Posted on December 15, 2005 18:00

Mets catcher is Paul LoDuca... (Below threshold)

5. Posted by shark | December 15, 2005 9:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

shark:

Mets catcher is Paul LoDuca......

Posted on December 15, 2005 21:27

Yanks catcher is Jorge Posa... (Below threshold)

6. Posted by shark | December 15, 2005 10:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Yanks catcher is Jorge Posada...

[Ed - Fixed. Thanks.]

Posted on December 15, 2005 22:33

Did you see the crack whore... (Below threshold)

7. Posted by Taz | December 15, 2005 10:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Taz:

Did you see the crack whore standing 10 feet back, begging for the baby to be thrown her way!? Thank Gawd the only capable hands caught the child & performed CPR to revive it!

Posted on December 15, 2005 22:37

Doesn't work for me :/... (Below threshold)

8. Posted by jennifer | December 16, 2005 11:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

jennifer:

Doesn't work for me :/

do you have a direct url to the video?

My windows media player says it doesn't recognize the format. Odd.

Posted on December 16, 2005 11:46

Obviously, this isn't all t... (Below threshold)

9. Posted by Colin | December 16, 2005 7:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Colin:

Obviously, this isn't all the vid, but does it strike anyone else as odd that all the people standing beneath the window walk away behind the guy with the baby? Isn't that woman still in the window of the burning building?

Posted on December 16, 2005 19:44

Fire-fighters got her out, ... (Below threshold)

10. Posted by Taz | December 16, 2005 11:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Fire-fighters got her out, she only dropped the baby because it stopped breathing. I saw/heard that on the TV news. Mom was rescued safely, baby doing fine.

Posted on December 16, 2005 23:39

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