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Ernie Harwell

Date of birth:	25 January 1918
Date of death:	Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin:	America
Profession:	Baseball Play-by-play Announcer
Biography:
*William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell* (born January 25, 1918 in Washington, Georgia) is a former Major League Baseball play-by-play announcer. For 55 years, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called balls, strikes, and home runs over the radio. /b> After graduating from Emory University, Ernie Harwell began his career as a Copy editing and Sportswriting for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and as a regional correspondent for (More...)

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	" A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball. "		Ernie Harwell

	" Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job. "		Ernie Harwell

	" Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. "		Ernie Harwell

	" Baseball is a rookie. His experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. "		Ernie Harwell

	" Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season and a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. "		Ernie Harwell

	" Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. "		Ernie Harwell

	" But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love. "		Ernie Harwell

	" Especially in this strike filled year but my feelings about the game are still the same as they were back then and I think that maybe yours are too. "		Ernie Harwell

	" God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull. "		Ernie Harwell

	" I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. "		Ernie Harwell

	" I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto. "		Ernie Harwell

	" I love the game because it's so simple, yet it can be so complex. There's a lot of layers to it, but they aren't hard to peel back. "		Ernie Harwell

	" I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing. "		Ernie Harwell

	" I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing. "		Ernie Harwell

	" I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life. "		Ernie Harwell

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