By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer
Thursday, March 10, 2011
CLEARWATER — Yankees icon Yogi Berra was hospitalized Thursday morning "as a precautionary measure" after tripping and falling in the clubhouse at Bright House Field, about an hour and a half before the first pitch of a New York Yankees-Philadelphia Phillies spring training game.
"He was alert, in good spirits," before he was taken to Morton Plant Hospital, said Yankees spokesman Michael Margolis.
Berra, 85, a Yankees legend who served two stints as team manager and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, tripped and fell backwards around 11:20 a.m., but did not hit his head and did not appear to be seriously injured, Margolis said.
Margolis said the team may put out an update later today about Berra's condition.