Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
More Quotes from Ernie Harwell:
I'm not an expert. I just want people to stay healthy, keep in shape and live the best life they can.Ernie Harwell
For more than three decades, Ernie Harwell was the voice of the Detroit Tigers. His Georgia voice was as sweet as a mint julep, and he rode it into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1981. Now 87 and retired from broadcasting, Harwell told The Denver Post's Anthony Cotton recently that the hardest thing he does these days is lift my feet up when my wife runs the vacuum cleaner. ... I'm a spokesman for Blue Cross and Blue Shield. We signed a 10-year contract with a 10-year option, so I have to live to be 106. And I'm going to do it or die trying.
Ernie Harwell
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
Ernie Harwell
Tom told me this wonderful story about how Ernie and his wife invited Tom and his wife over in Florida one time for a dish of ice cream. Who in this day invites you over for a dish of ice cream. Just wonderful.
Ernie Harwell
It's a great idea. Now, there's really a way to compare these guys. I enjoy the versatility of the different announcers.
Ernie Harwell
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: America Quotes, Baseball Quotes, Business & Commerce Quotes, Religions & Spirituality Quotes, Sports QuotesBased on Keywords: symbolizes
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Augustine Birrell
I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.
David Crosby