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January 26 2006

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Not Long Gone!
Ernie Endures

e's older
second floor hall of the front office
than any
building on Trumbull, heading to the
radio sta- elevator which would deposit me in
tion. He could
the parking lot.
talk before
I passed the small, darkened dining
movies could.
room, glanced inside and saw a body
Ernie Harwell
on the floor. It was Ernie Harwell. I
turned 88 on Jan. picked up the phone and started to
25. He's really 88
dial 911, while asking in a concerned
Irwin Cohen
years
young.
And
tone,
"Are you okay, Ernie?" The great
Community
he
loves
to
talk
familiar
voice answered, "Yes, I always
Perspective
about religion.
take a nap on the floor before a night
Even though he carries a full load
game. It helps my back.".
— reading, Writing and
making music — Ernie
tries to make time to
walk two miles daily and
jump rope 300 times.
Harwell journeyed
.
through Major League
Baseball announcing
stints with the Brooklyn
Dodgers, New York
Giants and Baltimore
Orioles before coming to
Detroit in 1960. He
quickly endeared himself
to Tigers fans and
became part of the corn-
munity.
Generations have
grown up listening to
Ernie, and through the
years, he became part of
several events,in the
Jewish community. My
personal favorite was at
the 2002 Jewish Home
and Aging Services
Benefactors installation
and dinner at the Jewish
Community Center in
West Bloomfield. I was
tagged with the -honor of Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell spoke at the
introducing the legendary 2002 Benefactori of the Jewish Home and Aging
Services installation and dinner. He was intro-
Harwell.
duced by friend and author Irwin Cohen.
At the time, my rela-
tionship with Harwell was
in its fourth decade. I owe him. When
I thought I knew a lot about Ernie's
I launched The Baseball Bulletin, a
background, but I didn't know about
national monthly publication, around
the naps on the floor. While I shared
30 years earlier, Harwell agreed to
my home's kosher dinner table with
become my lead-off columnist for
Ernie and knew something about his
each issue. He gave me instant credi-
culinary tastes, we were also able to
bility in the baseball world, for which I share thoughts on religion.
could only offer a token check.
Ernie taped a Seattle Mariners post-
Ten years later, I joined the Tigers
game advertisement sponsored by a
front office and Ernie gave me quite a
Christian organization to play back for
scare. It was the end of an August
me. The message was, "You won't go to
workday and I was walking down the
heaven unless you accept the

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