yourself…no producers, no assistants….you just go get all the info yourself. Different era. To do all of this is to love your work. But this type of situation would not have been unusual to anybody in Harwell’s peer group.

with a drunk old man who had PTSD from WW2 and a violent temper, crawling into bed at night with an old transistor radio, hiding under the covers so they couldn’t hear, sometimes staying up really late when there was a 10PM start against the Angels, Ernie’s voice, calm, passionate, loved the tigers, loved the game….it could be very comforting to hear an adult male who I could learn something from. ’68 especially, very good year.

I heard an interview with him on ESPN 1000. I believe that Chuck Swirsky was doing it. In any event, Ernie Harwell was talking about his personal observations of Babe Ruth. It struck me that we are nearing the end of an era where first hand observations of those players are still availible. To tell everyone the truth, before the interview, I thought that the era was already over, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear Harwell’s recollections.

I hear his voice in interviews and go to my happy place.

who is irritated by Jud Sirrot? He’s too loud, too quick, and his scoreboard reports cause us to miss several pitches.

He must have compromising photos of Sam Zell.

sounds like he could get in the booth and do PxP right now, at 90. Loved listening to him for the Tigs back in the day.

I still cannot believe the late Bo Schembechler actually FIRED Ernie back in the early 1990s. This was Bo’s way of saying he knew more about running a baseball operation than anyone else and he was going to run things like um football. He wanted a younger sound in the broadcast booth.

Bo knew NOTHING about baseball.

Thank God Mike Illich brought the team from Tom Monaghan and corrected this egregious mistake.

Tigers and baseball fans have been blessed with Ernie’s pxp.