Joe Torre's daughter became an unexpected and unplanned hero on Wednesday when caught a baby that had gotten out of a window and fell from the fire escape in Brooklyn, New York, the New York Daily News reports.
The daughter of Yankee legend Joe Torre, Cristina Torre made the catch of a lifetime on Third Avenue in Brooklyn. Torre, a teacher, was sitting in a coffee shop when a man rushed in, asking the owner to call 911 because there was a baby on the ledge above the store and was at risk of falling.
"I quickly got up and looked, and there was a baby kind of straddling the fire escape between the second and the third floor," she said.
Torre dialed 911 as closely watched the infant, strategically placing herself underneath the boy in case he fell.
"All of a sudden it slipped, and it was dangling and holding on with its hands," she said. Torres miraculously caught the baby who is doing fine and was not harmed from the incident. According to reports, the parents had fallen asleep and the baby boy had crawled out the window onto the ledge.
"I was still talking to 911 and I just put out my arms, and literally, it was effortless," she said. "It was meant to be. He landed in my arms."
"The kids are our future and when you get a situation where the good Lord puts you in a position where you're there, and a child's life is in your hands, literally, it feels good to me. I know it did to her," said Joe Torre, who is now Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations.
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