Ernie Harwell : Stories From My Life in Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend) [Paperback]

Ernie Harwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2001 | Series: Honoring a Detroit Legend

Long-time Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell tells his favorite baseball stories. This is a collection of columns originally published in the Detroit Free Press.

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About the Author

Ernie Harwell was born in Washington, Ga., on Jan. 25, 1918. He began his career in radio and television in 1940 and has been broadcasting major league baseball games since 1948. The 2001 baseball season will be his 41st broadcasting Detroit Tigers games. Harwell has written three other books -- "Tuned to Baseball," "Diamond Gems" and "The Babe Signed My Shoe" -- and has written a baseball column regularly for the Detroit Free Press since 1991. He lives in Farmington Hills, Mich., with his wife, Lulu.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Detroit Free Press (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937247359
• ISBN-13: 978-0937247358
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #795,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We all Miss Ernie, May 16, 2011

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Alan Buelow (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ernie Harwell : Stories From My Life in Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend) (Paperback)

Ernie was the Voice of Summer for Detroit Tiger fans. His books are welcome reminders of our now fallen hero. While Ernie is no longer with us, his voice reverberates in my mind as I read this and remember the innocent days of my childhood before life became real.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Recycling Pays -- But Not for the Reader., December 28, 2001

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This review is from: Ernie Harwell : Stories From My Life in Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend) (Paperback)

A collection of very short (typically less than 250-word) light riffs on baseball and broadcasting from this Hall of Fame radio play-by-play giant -- some are vaugely interesting, but don't expect any of gee-whiz insights into the game you'd hope for from a broadcaster of Harwell's pedigree.

Disturbingly about 25% of this book contains reprints of stories and articles from his other two books. This is particularly galling considering this is such a slim large-print effort to begin with.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ernie Harwell is a treasure, April 2, 2004

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Craig Matteson (Saline, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ernie Harwell : Stories From My Life in Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend) (Paperback)

Ernie Harwell is treasured by all Detroit Tigers baseball fans. For many of us, it is his voice we associate with listening to ballgames on summer evenings. Well, Mr. Harwell was also a writer. During the 1990s he wrote a short column for the Free Press over the years. The columns are only a few hundred words each, but they are keen observations of the team and the sport. While the columns come from the 90s, he makes observations and tells stories from many decades. They are quite interesting, well written, and easy to read. They sound like the kind of thing he would say through the mike if he had a few minutes to fill with his thoughts.

Some of these columns have been used elsewhere, but this is still a volume worth having if you are a Harwell fan and fan of the Tigers. The longer you have followed the Tigers the more his stories will mean as they bring back memories of players and games. I am glad to have it on my shelf.