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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

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Ernie Harwell
Age: 92 †
Born: 1918
Born: January 25
Died: 2010
Died: May 4
Journalist
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Washington
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William Earnest Harwell
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I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
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But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
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I think God always has the best for us.
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Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
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I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
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Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
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God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
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