Carl Erskine, a standout pitcher who was the last of the “Boys of Summer,” the celebrated Brooklyn Dodgers team of the 1940s and 1950s that broke baseball’s racial barrier with Jackie ...

Carl Daniel Erskine was born on Dec. 13, 1926, in Anderson. After graduating from high school in 1945, Erskine was drafted into the Navy. A year later, he asked the recreation director where he ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...