Bob Quote by Ernie Harwell

I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people…

— Ernie Harwell

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

— Ernie Harwell

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing…

— Ernie Harwell

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…

— Ernie Harwell

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with…

— Ernie Harwell

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

— Ernie Harwell

In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey.

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business…

— Ernie Harwell

I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else…

— Ernie Harwell

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

— Ernie Harwell

So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in…

— Ernie Harwell