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TUNED TO BASEBALL BY: ERNIE HARWELL

TUNED TO BASEBALL BY: ERNIE HARWELL

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FEATURES:  TUNED TO BASEBALL  BY: ERNIE HARWELL
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A) CONDITION BOOK: FINE - HARD BOUND
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: NEAR FINE - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$14.95] BRODART
C) FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING -  DIAMOND COMMUNICATIONS INC PUBLISH 1985
D) NOTE:  SHORT CLOSED TEAR ON DUST JACKET. PROBABLY UNREAD. INSCRIBED TO "RAY WITH APPRECIATION FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP" . TYPEWRITTEN LETTER DATED 1985 AND SIGNED BY HARWELL. ALSO - LAID IN - TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS - FROM LULU AND ERNIE HARWELL. SIGNED BY ERNIE HARWELLS HAND. ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOS.
229 PAGES.
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BOOK GRADING CATEGORIES:
FINE
VERY GOOD
GOOD
FAIR
POOR
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A Baseball Hall of Fame radio announcer draws on forty years of experience as both a professional ballplayer and commentator, providing a personal perspective on the last half-century of the American pastime.
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"Ernie Harwell is not only one of baseball's great announcers, but also one of its great men. This memoir chronicles his beginnings as an announcer back in the 30s all the way to the contemporary Detroit Tiger teams he now covers. Tiger fans wil get the most out of it, but the book is filled with "stuff you didn't know" about the great NY and Brooklyn teams in the 50s, as well as stories about many of baseball's notable figures over the last half-century. Written in a warm, home-spun style, this is one volume "purist" baseball fans will want to go out and get."
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William Earnest Harwell (January 25, 1918 – May 4, 2010) was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 seasons, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked Harwell 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time.[1]
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Ernie Harwell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, working in his youth as a paperboy for the Atlanta Georgian; one of his customers was writer Margaret Mitchell. An avid baseball fan from an early age, Harwell became visiting batboy for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of five, and never had to buy a ticket to get into a baseball game again. At sixteen he began working as a regional correspondent for The Sporting News.

Harwell attended Emory University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and helped edit The Emory Wheel. After graduating, Harwell worked as a copy editor and sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution. In 1943, he began announcing games for the Crackers on WSB radio, after which he served four years in the United States Marine Corps. Harwell would leave the service in January 1946 as a sergeant. During his enlistment he was stationed in Camp Lejeune as a writer for The Globe base newspaper, and later in Washington, D.C. as a writer for Leatherneck magazine.[2]

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