Travels with Ernie

Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell is hoping baseball fans take a historical journey with him by listening to his four-hour, four-CD audiobook.

"Ernie Harwell's Audio Scrapbook" includes interviews with former stars such as Ted Williams along with some of Harwell's famous calls.

"(It) is kind of like a personal journal, a newsreel without the pictures, about baseball during my career," the 88-year-old Harwell said in the AP story. "I sat in a studio without a script, talking about all kinds of topics, and there's a lot of neat audio of things ranging from Bobby Thompson's clubhouse interviews to a football game I broadcasted in 1956 between Baltimore and Los Angeles."

The audio book can be purchased at http://www.eharwell.com and costs $19.84.

1984 ... Isn't that the last year the Tigers won the World Series?

Harwell retired in 2002 after a 55-year career in broadcasting, including 42 years with the Detroit Tigers after stints with the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers (where Vin Scully eventually replaced him) and Baltimore Orioles.