Remembering the Legacy of Detroit’s “Voice of Summer”

January 25, 2018

Former Tigers Sportcaster Ernie Harwell would have been 100 years old today.

Ernie Harwell

Today would have been former Tigers sportscaster Ernie Harwell’s 100th birthday. Harwell was behind the mic in Detroit for more than 40 years, from 1960 until his retirement in the early 2000s. Listen at the link above to local writer Dave Mesrey, who’s been involved for decades in preserving Detroit’s baseball history, talk to CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire about Harwell’s legacy.

 

 

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  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning journalist and producer of the CuriosiD podcast for 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She served as the host of WDET's now discontinued program CultureShift, was a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, and a former host/reporter for Arizona Public Media.

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