Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200813 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

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.

Customer Reviews

Ernie Harwell is a treasure
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.

Recycling Pays -- But Not for the Reader.
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.

Excellent
Although some of the stories have been written before and many heard on Ernie's broadcasts, it an absolute must for any Detroit Tiger fan from the 1960's to early 1990's (like me)!