I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen… - Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen…
- Ernie Harwell
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies. - Ernie Harwell
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost e… - Ernie Harwell
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost e…
I look on life as a joyous adventure. - Ernie Harwell
I look on life as a joyous adventure.
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely somethin… - Ernie Harwell
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely somethin…
I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal. - Ernie Harwell
I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in lif… - Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in lif…
So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in t… - Ernie Harwell
So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in t…
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker. - Ernie Harwell
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.
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