Two years ago, when Gil Hodges finally made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his 35th time on the ballot, Craig Muder, the Hall’s communications director, asked me to write a piece about him for the Hall of Fame Yearbook. I had just finished a book on Hodges’ 1969 Mets (https://www.amazon.com/they-said-couldnt-be-done-Books/s?k=they+said+it+couldn%27t+be+done&rh=n%3A283155 “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done), the most wondrous sporting event of my childhood, and was honored to say yes.
What a wonderful tribute to an especially wonderful man. Beautifully done.
It's very easy to write nice things about Carl Erskine. We could use more humans like him.