Hall of Famer Kell in hospital after accident

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Baseball Hall of Famer George Kell is hospitalized and will need some physical therapy after breaking his left leg and left arm in a car crash, his wife said Friday.

Carolyn Kell said her 82-year-old husband was "doing very well" but remained hospitalized following a crash Tuesday with a tractor-trailer.

"Considering the magnitude of the wreck, God was just with him," Mrs. Kell said.

She said her husband had watched a little football Friday but doctors were giving him medicine to sedate him.

Kell played with five teams during a 15-year career, all in the American League, beginning with the Philadelphia Athletics and then the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles.

Kell was a 10-time All-Star and the AL batting champion in 1949. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.