WJR 760 * Ernie Harwell * AUGUST 20, 1986
ERNIE CALLS WALT TERRELL’S NO-HIT BID
— THE GREG INNIS COLLECTION —
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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.
— ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
“2 nothing the Tigers lead in the last half of the eight inning . . .”. . .
A special THANK YOU to our senior website contributor Greg Innis for recently providing Motor City Radio Flashbacks with this Detroit Tigers Broadcasting (Ernie Harwell) audio play-by-play memory, as aired on WJR radio, Wednesday evening, August 20, 1986.
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