Posted on 04/17/2024 11:37:22 AM PDT by buckalfa
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. He was 97.
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Game Called.
“Oisk”.
Only 35 pitchers have pitched two or more no-hitters in the major leagues. He’s not in the Hall of Fame.
97 years. That’s a damn good run. RIP, Carl.
Many felt that if Dressen had called in Erskine, who was warming in the bull pen, instead of Branca, Bobby Thompson’ s shot heard round the world in ‘51 would have ended differently. Baseball in the ‘50’s was great , when baseball truly was the national pastime.
One of those 35 pitchers, Ken Holtzman, also died a few days ago.
All true. I cannot really lament the passing of a 97-year old man other than to say he was a good man who led a good like. RIP Oisk.
His career was too short and his win count too low.
The Brooklyn ace of 1953. Went 20-6 that year. Just a truly great man. An absolute prince.
Erskine has the distinction of being the winning pitcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first home game ever on April 18, 1958.
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Sandy Koufax is the last living member of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers team.
Thanks. I wasn’t familiar with his career.
Neither is Johnny Vender Meer. His two no hitters were back-to-back.
Steve Busby of the Kansas City Royals pitched two no-hitters and is on that list as well. Steve who?
I remember Busby, and his base-stealing catcher Fran Healy.
It’s 1938. You’re in a room with Stalin, Hitler, and Walter O’Malley. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
Shoot O’Malley twice.
Len Barker pitched a perfect game in 1981 and never had another no-hitter. He was the strikeout leader in the AL in 1980 and 1981 but 1981 was the shortened season because of the strike. So the perfect game is his chief claim to fame, I suppose.
Anderson, Indiana, was once mentioned in "Peanuts." For a while Snoopy was a big fan of the books of Miss Helen Sweetstory. One of her books was entitled The Six Bunny-Wunnies and their Layover in Anderson, Indiana.
Snoopy changed his mind when he learned that Miss Sweetstory owned a lot of cats.
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