Remembering Carl Erskine: An appreciation of a legendary Brooklyn Dodger

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Erskine, who won five pennants and a World Series with the Dodgers, and the Hall of Fame's Buck O'Neil Award, died Tuesday at 97.

Imagine that you’re almost 100 years old. Your mind is still sharp, but you don’t move around much anymore. What are some things you’d always want within reach? Glasses. A drink of water. A phone, a book, a remote control. Carl Erskine had some of those items by his blue easy chair last summer, in the living room of his home in Anderson, Ind., a modest little town between Brooklyn and Los Angeles. .

This was the infancy of television, and he and Roe took part in a program called “Omnibus,” an educational variety show. Erskine scuffed up a ball to give it extra bite. “I warmed up and the director of the film stood behind me and said, ‘I’m not a baseball guy, so I don’t know what I’m looking for here. Could you throw me a couple of curveballs so I could see what it is I’m trying to film?’” Erskine said. “So with this scuffed-up baseball, I threw an overhand curveball and it broke big.

 

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