Ernie Harwell

William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell (born January 25, 1918 in Washington, Georgia) is a former Major League Baseball announcer. For 55 years (42 of them with the Detroit Tigers), Harwell called balls, strikes, and home runs over the radio.

Books by Ernie Harwell

• Tuned to Baseball (South Bend, Ind.: Diamond Communications, 1985).
• Ernie Harwell's Diamond Gems, edited by Geoff Upward (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Momentum, 1991).
• The Babe Signed My Shoe: Baseball As It Was -- And Will Always Be, edited by Geoff Upward (South Bend, Ind.: Diamond Communications, 1994).
• Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball, with Tom Keegan (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2002).