William Earnest (Ernie) Harwell, 92, died Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in his apartment at Fox Run Village and Retirement Center in the Detroit, Mich., suburb of Novi. A private family funeral service was planned for later. He had been diagnosed with inoperable cancer in September 2009.
On to the next ‘great adventure’
When Washington honored Ernie Harwell and welcomed him home on the occasion of his induction into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, we recognized his greatness and his lifetime of achievement in sports reporting and baseball broadcasting. While he visited with us, we discovered that those things for which he was so well known were not the things that made him great.
