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Arroyo suffers 'mild heart attack'

Updated: July 17, 2010, 7:23 PM ET
By Wallace Matthews | ESPNNewYork.com

NEW YORK -- Luis Arroyo, a left-handed relief pitcher who was a member of the Yankees' 1961 and 1962 World Series championship teams, suffered a "mild heart attack" while on a Yankees-sponsored cruise Friday night, according to a team spokesman.

Arroyo, 73, was said to be resting comfortably in a New York area hospital, although Yankees officials could not provide his condition nor which hospital he was in. According to several former players who were on the cruise, part of the Yankees Old-Timers' ...

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