Carl Erskine
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"Carl Daniel Erskine" is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Los Angeles Dodgers/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 season in which he win (baseball)/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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We were all very nostalgic about those guys.

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work with.

If you tried to build a group home, you'd hear, `I don't want those insane people living next to us.' It was a hurtful thing to hear in your own home town.

It was bitter and sweet.

[Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.

O'Malley had to be the fall guy.

Why would we ever be assembled again after the 50th anniversary passes? ... We'll probably all go back to our lives in our homes or whatever. But to assemble us all again, it isn't likely to happen. We've had our last hurrah.

This kid who was always laid back, he's got a few bubbles in him, he said: 'Bring 'em on today, I'll beat 'em again. That was so uncharacteristic.