Ernie Harwell
William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell (January 25, 1918 – May 4, 2010) was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 seasons, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked Harwell 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time.
Biography
Early life and career
Ernie Harwell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, working in his youth as a paperboy for the Atlanta Georgian; one of his customers was writer Margaret Mitchell. An avid baseball fan from an early age, Harwell became visiting batboy for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of five, and never had to buy a ticket to get into a baseball game again. At sixteen he began working as a regional correspondent for The Sporting News.
Harwell attended Emory University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and helped edit The Emory Wheel. After graduating, Harwell worked as a copy editor and sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution. In 1943, he began announcing games for the Crackers on WSB radio, after which he served four years in the United States Marine Corps.
Podcasts:
Ernie Harwell
ALBUMS
- Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play II released: 1990
Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play II
Released 1990- Intro: Mr. Cub
- It's a Beautiful Day for a Ball Game
- The First Baseball Game
- Robbie-Doby-Boogie
- Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn
- Bogey on Baseball, Circa 1950
- Baseball, Baseball
- The St. Louis Browns
- You've Got to Have Heart
- Casey & The Mick
- Right Field
- Knock It Out the Park
- Play (I Saw It on the radio)
- Hammerin' Hank's Historical Homer
- The Last Home Run
- Baseball Blues
- Will You Be Ready (At the Plate When Jesus Throws the Ball)
- What Sparks a Champion?
- The Philadelphia Fillies
- The Bingo Long Song (Steal on Home)
- The Cubbies Are Rockin'
- The Game for All America (A Definition of Baseball)
- Na Na Hey Hey
Born: 1918-01-25
Died: 2010-05-04
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