Day: October 8, 2018

HARWELL. THE VOICE OF SUMMER’S PAST REMEMBERED

The Anthem Gets Booed * ERNIE HARWELL’S AUDIO SCRAPBOOK
DETROIT FREE PRESS October 8, 1968

‘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

Tiger Stadium October 7, 1968

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THE GAMES RESUMES 10/09/18: THE ’68 WORLD SERIES!

Detroit Free Press Wednesday, October 9, 1968

THE ’68 WORLD SERIES CONTINUES TOMORROW

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The ’68 World Series games heads back to St. Louis!

NBC Sports Radio covers Game 6 of the 1968 World Series — resuming October 9 on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature the ’68 World Series’ finally Game 7 on October 10, when the series reverted back to Busch Stadium for the final two games, 10/1968.

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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WXYZ RADIO 1270 ‘DETROIT SOUND’ SURVEY: 10/03/66

WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey October 3, 1966
WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey October 3, 1966

WXYZ. THIS WEEK. 52 YEARS AGO

October 3, 1966

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(From the Jim Heddle Collection)

This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.

WXYZ October 1966

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