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This list is complete and up-to-date as of the 2023 season. The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Los Angeles Dodgers National League franchise (1958–present), and for the Brooklyn-based teams known as the Atlantics (1884), Grays (1885–1887), Bridegrooms (1888–1890, 1896–1898), Grooms (1891–1895), Superbas (1899–1910 ...
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The 1955 World Series proved to the only title the Dodgers won in Brooklyn. After losing the 1956 World Series to the Yankees, the team would move to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. [10] With the death of Carl Erskine in April 2024, Sandy Koufax became the last surviving player from the 1955 team. [11]
Among the last survivors from the celebrated Brooklyn teams of the 1950s, Erskine spent his entire major league career with the Dodgers from 1948-59, helping them win five National League pennants.
Born Thomas Michael Brown on Dec. 6, 1927, in Brooklyn, he signed with his hometown Dodgers after a 1943 tryout and spent the first four months of the 1944 season in the minors. Nicknamed “Buckshot,” the 6-foot-1 Brown was 16 years, 241 days old when he started at shortstop at Ebbets Field against the Chicago Cubs on Aug. 3, 1944, during ...
While the Dodgers went 26–22 from that time until the end of the season, the Giants went on an absolute tear, winning an amazing 37 of their last 44 games, including their last seven in a row. At the end of the season the Dodgers and the Giants were tied for first place, forcing a three-game playoff for the pennant.
Once there, Langill accompanied Gleason to a wall that contains most of the names on the Dodgers’ all-time roster. In a scene that brought both men to the verge of tears, Gleason’s name was there.
Erskine was the last surviving member of the "Boys of Summer" Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s and 1950s, and the last surviving member of the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers. [15] Upon his death, Dodgers president and chief executive officer Stan Kasten released the following statement: Carl Erskine was an exemplary Dodger.