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Topic: Harwell


In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  CNNSI.com - Baseball - Tigers honor longtime broadcaster Harwell - Monday September 16, 2002 12:29 AM
Harwell, who been a major league broadcaster for 55 years, 42 with the Tigers, is retiring at the end of the season.
Harwell left the game early after his wife of 61 years, Lulu, was taken from the stadium to Henry Ford Hospital.
Harwell began his career with the Tigers in 1960, and a generation of fans grew up listening to him call games, sometimes well past their bedtimes.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/news/2002/09/15/tigers_harwell_ap   (601 words)

  
 National Baseball Hall of Fame - 1981 Frick Award Winner Ernie Harwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ernie Harwell, longtime announcer for the Detroit Tigers, was the 1981 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.
Harwell also worked for the New York Giants and for the Baltimore Orioles before coming to Detroit in 1960.
Harwell's two biggest thrills as an announcer were Bobby Thomson's playoff homer in 1951 and Hoyt Wilhelm's 1958 no-hitter against the Yankees.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/frick_bios/harwell_ernie.htm   (226 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Ernie Harwell, Sportscaster
Ernie Harwell is the long-time voice of the Detroit Tigers.
Harwell was born on January 25, 1918, in Washington, Georgia, and is a graduate of Emory University.
Harwell began his career as a radio commentator on Atlanta’s WSB in 1940.
www.radiohof.org /sportscasters/ernieharwell.html   (230 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Q & A with Ernie Harwell
Harwell has been the voice of the Atlanta Crackers (1943; 1946-48), Dodgers (1948-49), New York Giants (1950-53), Baltimore Orioles (1954-59) and Detroit Tigers (1960-91; 1993-2002).
Harwell: That one is from a poem that I recited when I was a kid.
Harwell: The biggest change on the field is the importance of the bullpen.
espn.go.com /mlb/s/2002/0731/1412280.html   (1290 words)

  
 ESPN.com - MLB - Living Legends: Ernie Harwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Harwell was with the Dodgers through the end of the 1949 season, then took a job to work with Russ Hodges on the New York Giants' radio and television broadcasts.
Harwell left the Giants to become the lead broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles in 1954 (their first season after moving from St. Louis), then moved on to the Detroit Tigers for the 1960 season.
Harwell is most noted for keeping his listeners informed (it is said that no one gives the score more often than he did) and entertained with fascinating stories about the game, its history, and its personalities.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/story?id=1591168   (1416 words)

  
 Ernie Harwell and Tiger Stadium: Two old friends
Harwell enjoyed all sports but he longed to be a baseball play-by-play man like his heroes, Red Barber and Mel Allen.
From 1954 to 1959, Harwell was the voice of the Baltimore Orioles.
Harwell became such a habit in Detroit and the Midwest that many associated him with the changing of seasons, the signal that soon the weather will be warmer and the days longer.
info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=108&category=sports   (2471 words)

  
 Ernie Harwell - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
In 1948 Harwell became the only announcer in baseball history to be traded for a player when the Brooklyn Dodgers' General Manager, Branch Rickey, traded catcher Cliff Dapper to the Crackers in exchange for breaking Harwell's broadcasting contract.
Harwell later served as the play-by-play man for both the New York Giants and Baltimore Orioles before becoming the "Voice of the Detroit Tigers" from 1960 to 2002.
Harwell was elected to the National Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1989, the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Radio Hall of Fame in 1998, and was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981 as only the fifth broadcaster to receive its Ford C. Frick Award, among many other honors.
education.music.us /E/Ernie-Harwell.htm   (460 words)

  
 Detroit Tigers : History : Ernie Harwell Tribute
Often referred to as the Voice of Tigers Baseball, Harwell, 84, would open each season by reciting the "Song of the Turtle," a stanza that celebrates the freshness of spring, renewed life and opportunities, and ushers in the baseball season for Tigers fans the world over.
At Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, the Tigers' Spring Training facility, Harwell is often stopped for a friendly handshake or a request for an autograph or is presented with fans standing on the back of seats to peer into the press box for a glimpse and friendly word with the beloved broadcaster.
Harwell's contributions to Tigers baseball and the fans will be celebrated with special events at Comerica Park throughout the season.
detroit.tigers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/det/history/harwell/det_history_feature_harwell.jsp   (644 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - We'll miss sweet-talking Ernie Harwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ernie Harwell's voice is like AM radio itself — a faraway sound from another time, yet familiar and comforting.
Harwell's retirement wouldn't be such a downer if there were other Harwells to enjoy for the next 30, 40 years.
Ernie Harwell is/was a painter (he put a picture in my mind), a storyteller (he knew pace and drama) and a poet (a word man until the end).
www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/zillgitt/2002-09-25-harwell_x.htm   (793 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - No goodbyes, just 'thank you' from announcer Harwell
Harwell said he felt relaxed all day until he read his farewell.
Harwell said he talked to his wife, Lulu, during the game a couple of times, and that she offered assurance.
Harwell called Tigers games on the radio from 1960 until 1991 and was a television announcer for Detroit games from 1993-98.
espn.go.com /mlb/news/2002/0929/1438686.html   (732 words)

  
 The Environmental Sciences Institute at Florida A&M University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Harwell is an ecosystems ecologist with expertise in ecological risk assessments and ecosystem management.
Harwell has led a series of interdisciplinary studies on human interactions with the South Florida environment, including field, mesocosm, and modeling studies in Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Harwell also served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and was elected a Fellow of AAAS.
www.famu.edu /acad/colleges/esi/harwellpage.html   (514 words)

  
 Ernie Harwell Hall of Fame Induction Day Speech
You know the life and times of Ernie Harwell could be capsuled I think in two famous quotations, one from a left handed, the New York Yankee pitcher and the other one from a right handed English poet.
Harwell knows that I did the telecast of Bobby Thomson's home run.
Harwell has had a long and illustrious career behind the microphone.
www.baseball-almanac.com /hof/Ernie_Harwell_HOF_Induction.shtml   (1635 words)

  
 NPR : The Last Broadcasts of Ernie Harwell
In 1948, Harwell told Gonyea, he got his big break: A call from the Brooklyn Dodgers, to replace their now-legendary announcer Red Barber.
Today, he says of Harwell, "If you took the great icons of baseball, Ernie Harwell is perhaps the most talented, thoughtful and well-rounded of all of them… He is an artist who paints pictures with his words and his voice."
Though Harwell says he feels like he could work another five years, he decided that now was a good time to retire.
www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/aug/ernieharwell   (722 words)

  
 Baseball greetings, Ernie Harwell - Salon
Harwell's voice has become as much a part of Detroit baseball as the Old English "D" on the Tigers' jerseys.
Hard as it will be for Tigers fans to say goodbye to Harwell after carrying his voice with them for more than four decades, rough as it is for them to see him off after another last-place finish by Detroit, even worse is the possibility that a baseball strike will deprive them of the chance.
Harwell's announcement in March that he would retire after this season came as a surprise.
dir.salon.com /story/people/feature/2002/08/27/harwell/index.html?CP=RDF&DN=310   (1269 words)

  
 Richard Barksdale Harwell Papers - UF Special and Area Studies Collections
Richard Barksdale Harwell was born in 1915 in Washington County, Georgia.
A librarian, bibliographer, and historian, Harwell authored and edited numerous books relating to the Civil War and especially to the Confederacy.
Harwell's presentation inscription, Cities and Camps of the Confederate States by Fitzgerald Ross.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/manuscript/guides/Harwell.htm   (572 words)

  
 Harwell Parish
Harwell has won Oxfordshire's Best Kept Village competition in the Large Villages Class.
We are close to the North South trunk road, the A34, and a few miles from Didcot (new shops), and the railway at Didcot Parkway station for trains to London Paddington, the west country, and the north via Oxford and Birmingham..
The boundaries of the Parish reach beyond the village, from the Harwell Business Centre (previously UKAEA) in the south, to the Milton Trading Estate in the north.
www.harwellparish.co.uk   (688 words)

  
 Harwell Hypnosis & Healing Arts
Janet Harwell is a Certified Member of the National Guild of Hypnotists.
Harwell has studied under numerous well-known hypnotists and continues to attend seminars, lectures, national hypnotists conventions and workshops annually to further her education and to fulfill the continuing education requirements of her professional organizations.
Janet Harwell became interested in hypnosis as a result of her mother's diagnosis of inoperable cancer in January, 2000.
www.harwellhypnosis.com /about.asp   (609 words)

  
 The Pacer - Harwell speaks on upcoming election year
State Rep. Beth Harwell spoke to a crowd of over 40 people Wednesday, Nov. 19, expressing her optimistic outlook for Tenn. Republicans in the upcoming elections.
Harwell spoke briefly on the goals for the Republican Party for the 2004 Election.
Beth Harwell is Chairman of the Tenn. Republicans, Representative of the 56th District, and serves on the House Education Committee of the Tenn. General Assembly.
pacer.utm.edu /1365.htm   (219 words)

  
 Ernie Harwell | BaseballLibrary.com
A talented writer and accomplished lyricist and composer outside the broadcast booth, Harwell has been the immensely popular voice of the Tigers for almost three decades.
Harwell was broadcasting for the Atlanta Crackers when his work caught the attention of Dodgers owner Branch Rickey, and Rickey traded minor league catcher Cliff Dapper to the Crackers to bring Harwell to Brooklyn in 1948.
Harwell originally worked on both TV and radio, but after 1965 his endearing, friendly voice was heard exclusively on radio.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/H/Harwell_Ernie.stm   (255 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Baseball - Harwell calls his last game in Detroit - Sunday September 22, 2002 05:57 PM
And after the game, there was an on-field ceremony in which the Tigers presented Harwell with Comerica Park's home plate and a plaque announcing that the stadium's press box will be officially dubbed "The Ernie Harwell Media Center" at the beginning of the 2003 season.
Harwell said he will still appear in television commercials for Comerica Bank and Kroger Supermarkets and will do 26 television vignettes for Fox Sports Detroit's "Detroit Tigers Weekly." He also plans to write 27 columns for the Detroit Free Press next season.
Harwell said his biggest moment that didn't involve a broadcast was receiving the 1981 Ford C. Frick Award, which the Baseball Hall of Fame uses to recognize excellence in broadcasting.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/news/2002/09/22/tigers_harwell_ap   (807 words)

  
 M71 Harwell (J.D.) Letters
J.D. Harwell wrote several letters which were published in The Confederate Veteran between 1898 and 1922, requesting information about his brother's death and the location of his brother's Bible.
J.D. Harwell was a resident of Meridian and Pachuta, Mississippi, from 1872 through 1923.
Harwell writes of congenial relationships between Northerners and Southerners both during and after the war and mentions two reunions of Confederate veterans which he attended, one in Louisville, Kentucky, date unknown, and one in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1923.
www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/m071text.htm   (300 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Harwell is living baseball history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
BALTIMORE — As Ernie Harwell chats in the visitor's dugout at Camden Yards with one reporter, another tells him Brooks Robinson is at the ballpark that night.
Harwell's one-year absence from Detroit's booth (1992) brought on chants of "We want Ernie!" at Detroit Red Wings hockey games and scathing treatment of then-team president Bo Schembechler on local talk radio shows and in newspaper columns.
Curt Gowdy, a Yankees broadcaster while Harwell was working in New York who later made his name as the voice of the Boston Red Sox, raised that question recently during a phone interview.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/comment/borelli/2001-05-17-borelli.htm   (1011 words)

  
 The City Paper - Smart, Fast, Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Harwell responded, saying the violations were a “bookkeeping error” that occurred when federal campaign finance laws were changing.
In addition, Tuke chastised Harwell for accepting contributions from John Gregory, the former owner of King Pharmaceuticals Inc., while Harwell was chair in 2001 and 2002.
Harwell defended her party’s decision to accept contributions from Gregory and other close associates of King.
www.nashvillecitypaper.com /index.cfm?section=9&screen=news&news_id=46715   (565 words)

  
 Detroit Tigers : history : Ernie Harwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
By the time the Detroit Tigers begin Spring Training in 2003, Ernie Harwell might still be on one of his all-expenses-paid vacations the Tigers gave him.
Harwell still has two weeks before he leaves the broadcast booth, so the end really hasn't yet caught on.
The show of appreciation, however, was enough to draw a hint of a tear behind the sunglasses of a man who rarely grew too emotional on the air.
detroit.tigers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/det/history/det_history_harwell.jsp   (454 words)

  
 H&H - Who Is Hancock & Harwell?
Robert L. Harwell II, is President and partner in Hancock & Harwell, a rare coin and precious metal brokerage firm serving investors, collectors and the financial services industry.
Harwell has been a numismatist for almost 40 years and a full time coin dealer for nearly 21.
Harwell is a Founding Member of the Industry Council for Tangible Assets and has served continuously on the Board of Directors since its inception in 1983.
www.raregold.com /r-who.htm   (551 words)

  
 Thomas Harwell Family
James Harwell born before 1775 and died 1826 in Gwinett County, GA; married 8 July 1812, Elizabeth Doss, born 1790 and died after 1850.
Sarah Harwell born between 1760-70 and died between 1840-50 in Richland County, SC; married John Kelly, born between 1760-70 and died between 1840-50 in Richland County, SC.
Mary Harwell born between 1760-70 and died 1843-44 in Richland County, SC; married 1) _______ Tudor and married 2) William Dooley.
www.palmettoroots.org /Family_Harwell.html   (1314 words)

  
 VAUGHAN & HARWELL photos
This is Antonia S. Harwell (nee Cook), she was the mother of six children, including Katie Belle Harwell below.
Blanche Estelle Harwell, oldest of Antonia's children at age 19 in 1885.
Alma May Harwell, third daughter of Antonia & Richard D., Alma May was born May 25, 1872 - died May 30, 1891, leaving a tiny baby, Lillie Gertrude who died that July, and a young widower, Peter E. Cole, who later remarried and had more children.
home.att.net /~suntanr2/happy.html   (298 words)

  
 NASCAR.com - Conversation: Steve Harwell - November 25, 2003
Steve Harwell: I've been a race fan probably for as long as I could walk.
Steve Harwell: If I could've picked another driver, I would have loved to have had his dad (Dale Earnhardt) take me around, because as we were going around, he was talking about his dad.
Steve Harwell: Next year I'm going to try to get to at least, because I haven't had a chance, and we're not going to be touring right away after the first of the year so I'm definitely going to Daytona and I go to Indy every year.
www.nascar.com /2003/news/features/conversation/11/25/convo_harwell   (1929 words)

  
 News
Faye Harwell will be lecturing at the New Jersey ASLA conference in Union County New Jersey in late fall 2004.
Rhodeside and Harwell is leading a major effort for Prince George’s County in the development of a Master Plan for Bowie and Vicinity.
Rhodeside and Harwell is working with the Alice Ferguson Foundation to recommend courses of action for possible future growth and preservation of green space.
www.rhodeside-harwell.com /pages/news.html   (478 words)

  
 Detroit Tigers Ernie Harwell Trivia Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Harwell has not always been a baseball broadcaster.
Harwell was the voice of the first American League Championship Series in 1969 on what radio program?
Harwell was traded in 1948 from the Atlanta Crackers to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/det/fan_forum/det_fan_forum_trivia_harwell.jsp   (260 words)

  
 Ernie Harwell Quotations by Baseball Almanac
If he didn't tug at your heart when he was out there talking about the people who meant to him, his lifetime commitment to his wife, his devotion to God, it was pretty touching.
In many ways a Harwell broadcast is profoundly musical, as befits a man who has published fifty-five songs with composers such as Johnny Mercer.
Ernie Harwell spent most of his life as a Detroit Tigers announcer, mostly as the lead radio broadcaster.
www.baseball-almanac.com /quotes/ernie_harwell_quotes.shtml   (1503 words)

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