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Former Steelers QB Batch hospitalized

Former Steelers quarterback and current preseason color analyst on the team's TV broadcasts Charlie Batch spent Saturday hospitalized for a serious bacterial infection and dehydration.

The news was reported by the frmer quarterback on Batch's Linked In feed.

"Its been one heck of a week. Started out working youth football camps in Mexico City, then back home at Slippery Rock Univ, then St Vincents College (sic)," Batch wrote. "But by the end of the week I was in the Hosptial (sic) for a bacterial infection (possibly Ecoli) along with severe dehydration.

"Sometimes your body tells you to sit yo butt down and take care of yourself.