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" 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

Baseball

Business

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" 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

Opportunities

You

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

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" But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love. "

Ernie Harwell

Love

People

" 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. "

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

Ernie Harwell

Remembered

Job

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