Day: October 4, 2018

HARWELL. THE VOICE OF SUMMER’S PAST REMEMBERED

The Tigers Are World Champs * ERNIE HARWELL’S AUDIO SCRAPBOOK
1968 WORLD SERIES CHAMPS!

‘TIGERS ARE WORLD CHAMPS’

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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)

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THE GAMES RESUMES 10/05/18: THE ’68 WORLD SERIES!

Detroit Free Press Saturday, October 5, 1968

THE ’68 WORLD SERIES CONTINUES TOMORROW

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When the ’68 World Series games came home to Detroit!

NBC Sports Radio covers Game 3 of the 1968 World Series — resuming October 5 on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature the ’68 World Series’ Game 4 on October 6 and Game 5 on October 7, when the games shifted back to Detroit for a three-game home stand, October 1968.

Above article courtesy freep.com newspapers archives. Copyright 2018; Newspapers.com

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50th! Reliving the 1968 World Series — as it happened — on Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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WKNR TOP 31 DETROIT KEENER HITS! THIS WEEK 10/1970

WKNR MUSIC GUIDE September 28, 1970 – October 4, 1970
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE September 28, 1970 – October 4, 1970
48 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK. September 1970

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KEENER 13 1970

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.

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