99 Quotes by Ernie Harwell

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    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 in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

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