Carl Erskine Baseball player

Carl Daniel Erskine (born December 13, 1926 in Anderson, Indiana) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1948 through 1959. He was a pitching mainstay on Dodger teams which won five National League pennants, peaking with a 1953 season in which he won 20 games and set a World Series record with 14 strikeouts in a single game. Erskine pitched two of the NL's seven no-hitters during the 1950s. Following his baseball career, he was active as a business executive and an author.

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Carl Erskine
Birth dateDecember 13, 1926

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Baseball player

Career startJuly 25, 1948
Career endJune 14, 1959
batting sideRight
former teams
Los Angeles Dodgers
position
Pitcher
teams
Los Angeles Dodgers
throwing sideRight

Carl Erskine on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/E/Erskine_Carl.stm
  2. http://www.carlerskine.com
  3. http://www.dembrooklynbums.com/2008/08/19/erskine-has-no-regrets