FILE - Former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player Carl Erskine plays the national anthem on his harmonica before a college basketball game between Anderson and Franlin in Anderson, Ind., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Carl Erskine, who pitched two no-hitters as a mainstay on the Brooklyn Dodgers and was a 20-game winner in 1953 when he struck out a then-record 14 in the World Series, died Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at Community Hospital Anderson in Anderson, Ind.
Carl Daniel Erskine was born Dec. 13, 1926, in Anderson, Indiana. He began playing baseball at age 9 in a local parks program. In 1951, he transitioned to the starting rotation and joined teammates Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider as one of the revered “Boys of Summer.”
On the recommendation of pitching coach Clyde Sukeforth, Newcombe was relieved by Branca, who then gave up the game-winning home run to Bobby Thomson in the famed “Shot Heard ’Round the World.” Bobby Morgan preserved Erskine’s no-hitter against the Cubs with two brilliant fielding plays at third base.
Erskine returned to his hometown about 45 miles northeast of Indianapolis and opened an insurance business. He coached baseball at Anderson College for 12 years, and his 1965 team went 20-5 and won the NAIA World Series.
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