Comments on: The Sound of Summer http://www.moorethink.com/2010/05/04/the-sound-of-summer/ Less Confusion Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jim http://www.moorethink.com/2010/05/04/the-sound-of-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Jim Fri, 14 May 2010 14:20:37 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=614#comment-1113 Bob - Ernie, in fact, has the largest baseball memorabilia collection outside of Cooperstown. It's just been turned over to the Detroit Public Library for display. I think his wife Lulu is donating it to the city. He was a great and humble man and has always been one of the few things I have missed after leaving the midwest and heading south of the Mason Dixon. - Jim Bob – Ernie, in fact, has the largest baseball memorabilia collection outside of Cooperstown. It’s just been turned over to the Detroit Public Library for display. I think his wife Lulu is donating it to the city. He was a great and humble man and has always been one of the few things I have missed after leaving the midwest and heading south of the Mason Dixon. – Jim

]]> By: Bob Barker http://www.moorethink.com/2010/05/04/the-sound-of-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-1111 Bob Barker Thu, 13 May 2010 14:27:08 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=614#comment-1111 Jim, I enjoyed your description of growing up with Ernie Harwell. You would have enjoyed being with us in 2003 as we looked for a home when we first moved to Michigan for what would be a 3+ year stay. It happened that Mr. Harwell's lifelong home was on the tour our agent arranged for us. There was strict security for any visitors because, as we found out when we toured it, his place was filled with a lifetime of baseball memorabilia and we felt as though we were walking through a baseball museum. Jim,

I enjoyed your description of growing up with Ernie Harwell. You would have enjoyed being with us in 2003 as we looked for a home when we first moved to Michigan for what would be a 3+ year stay. It happened that Mr. Harwell’s lifelong home was on the tour our agent arranged for us. There was strict security for any visitors because, as we found out when we toured it, his place was filled with a lifetime of baseball memorabilia and we felt as though we were walking through a baseball museum.

]]> By: Jim http://www.moorethink.com/2010/05/04/the-sound-of-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Jim Fri, 07 May 2010 14:56:34 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=614#comment-1103 Bill - thanks for the kind words. I couldn't let Ernie go into that good night without saying good-bye. I loved him as a kid but I think as I became an adult and learned about what a gracious and humble man he was that I grew to admire him even more for his humanity than his great talent as a broadcaster. Wonderful to hear from you. - Jim Bill – thanks for the kind words. I couldn’t let Ernie go into that good night without saying good-bye. I loved him as a kid but I think as I became an adult and learned about what a gracious and humble man he was that I grew to admire him even more for his humanity than his great talent as a broadcaster. Wonderful to hear from you. – Jim

]]> By: Bill Potter http://www.moorethink.com/2010/05/04/the-sound-of-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Bill Potter Fri, 07 May 2010 14:53:00 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=614#comment-1102 I enjoyed reading your memories of Michigan summers, Jim. It was the same for us in the bedroom communities around Detroit -- a makeshift diamond, taped stringballs and fractured bats, and our own play-by-play accounts fed, of course, by Ernie Harwell's copyrightable expressions such as "long gone" and "he stood there like the house by the side of the road" on a called third strike. Then, of course, there was the famous 1968 tune he wrote for the emerging Series champs. Really, there are nothing but good memories that accompany Mr. Harwell. Nice tribute. Bill Buddy I enjoyed reading your memories of Michigan summers, Jim. It was the same for us in the bedroom communities around Detroit — a makeshift diamond, taped stringballs and fractured bats, and our own play-by-play accounts fed, of course, by Ernie Harwell’s copyrightable expressions such as “long gone” and “he stood there like the house by the side of the road” on a called third strike. Then, of course, there was the famous 1968 tune he wrote for the emerging Series champs. Really, there are nothing but good memories that accompany Mr. Harwell. Nice tribute.

Bill Buddy

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