The Anthem Gets Booed * ERNIE HARWELL’S AUDIO SCRAPBOOK
‘THE ANTHEM GETS BOOED’
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Besides the voice of Ernie Harwell, the various narratives you will hear throughout the entire audio book is by Raleigh, N.C. sports broadcaster Gordon Miller. Occasional questions you will also hear is by veteran Duke University sports broadcaster Bob Harris.
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Ernie Harwell passed away on May 4, 2010. He was known as “the voice of the Detroit Tigers” for over 40 years. He called his last Tiger game in Toronto, on September 29, 2002. In 1981, Harwell was awarded baseball’s most prestigious Ford C. Frick Award.
He became only the fifth baseball broadcaster enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Voice of Summer Remembered
(CD audio set availability, link: Ernie Harwell’s Audio Scrapbook 2009
I was there, sitting in the lower left center field stands behind Jose.