Anderson native and Dodgers baseball player Carl Erskine was remembered at a hometown funeral Monday.

Indiana native, baseball legend and human rights champion Carl Erskine passed away last week at the age of 97.

Carl Erskine, who pitched two no-hitters as a mainstay on the Brooklyn Dodgers and was a 20-game winner in 1953 when he struck out a then-record 14 in the World Series, died Tuesday. He was 97.