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Carl Erskine

Carl Erskine

American baseball player (1926–2024)
🗓️ 16 April 2024

Carl Daniel Erskine, nicknamed "Oisk", was an American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1948 through 1959. He was a pitching mainstay on Dodger teams which won five National League pennants and the 1955 World Series.

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