Carl Erskine remembers 1951
NEW YORK (AP) — Stealing signals. Banging on a trash can. Beating the Dodgers in October.
Sounds very familiar to Carl Erskine.
“If they’re going to go back to 2017 with penalties for the Astros,” he said Wednesday, “then I want them to go all the way back to 1951 to help us.”
The old Brooklyn pitcher was laughing. Sort of.
Now 93, Erskine vividly recalled what — until this week — had been…