Quotes By Ernie Harwell

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

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

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

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.

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.