Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#day-to-day #downs #existence #full #life

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. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#american #american spirit #ball #baseball #bat

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#god #here #me #michigan #putting

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#broadcast #events #exploits #great #i

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#i #job #like #myself #remembered

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#corner #dugout #his #man #old

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#atlanta #baseball #been #broadcasting #earl

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#begins #bigger #dream #experience #fulfillment

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#baseball #catch #dad #farm #first

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#blessing #comes #great #here #him