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.
Comments
Ernie's a class act, in the same class as Jerry Coleman and Vin Scully.
Posted by: Robert | November 19, 2006 09:29 PM