Update: Breaking: Yankees Pitcher Feared Dead In UES Plane Crash
Via CNN:
New York Yankees manager Joe Torre says the plane that crashed into a building in Manhattan is registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle.
UPDATE: WFAN’s Yankees beat reporter Sweeney Murti says that Lidle told him he was planning on flying home to California and that he got his pilot’s license just last year.
UPDATE #2: ESPN.com reports Lidle was flying the plane, is dead.
UPDATE #3: A story about Lidle’s recreational aviation hobby from Delaware Online, via Deadspin:
The Phillies weren’t enamored of pitcher Cory Lidle’s hobby of flying a four-seat airplane.
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