Carl Erskine, one of the last living Brooklyn Dodgers and a mainstay of a pitching rotation that carried the team to four World Series in the 1950s before the team headed to Los Angeles, has died in his hometown of Anderson, Ind. A thoughtful man who threw himself into charity work later in life, Erskine died early Tuesday morning after a brief illness. He was 97. Part of a nearly mythical group of ballplayers who were anointed "The Boys of Summer" by author Roger Kahn, Erskine played alongside... Read this story
