1977 05 11 Twins at Tigers Radio Broadcast

[@WT-Sherman]

Great to hear the sounds of Tiger Stadium. Ernie was practically sitting right over home plate with nothing but a net in front of him. His seat had to be the closest vantage point in the majors for a broadcaster.

[@robertflowers6621]

Excellent sound quality on this particular recording. No better baseball broadcast team than Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey (and don't forget their engineer Howard Stitzel!) Great to hear Ernie giving birthday greetings at 6:50 to the Mechanical Man Charlie Gehringer.

[@jetsamperes5762]

As a 12 year old boy in Detroit I was obsessed with this team. This broadcast is perfect. Thank you.

[@Roger-mz4lx]

Oh gosh this is beautiful. I'll come back and listen to the whole game soon as it's past midnight in Columbus, Ohio. I would always listen to the Tiger games on WJR 760 after the Reds games during the 70's. Ernie Harwell is the best baseball broadcaster I've ever heard and I heard many during the 70's. Loved Mr. Paul Carey also and also Ray Lane before Paul.

[@williamsnyder5616]

There NEVER was a better play-by-play broadcaster than Ernie Harwell. It is a delight to heasr this Hall of Famer do his stuff. RIP Ernie.

[@kevinmiller6324]

Oh yes there is-his name is Vin Scully.

[@bobsheppard8773]

@Jim Bianco you're not too bright huh

[@normanleroy1874]

Really clear audio from WJR. Man, this is the sound of my youth. Ernie was a treasure (and Paul was the Voice of God)

[@beast1960]

Good stuff.

[@lsmftymf]

Listening to Detroit Tigers radio broadcasts in Chicago meant WJR after sunset and Kalamazoo's WKZO for day games. Varying degrees of static depending on the weather was always involved. Always did this whenever my Orioles played against the Tigers.

[@kirkt3586]

Classic radio baseball. Fond memories for me . Thanks for posting

[@marcusanderson933]

R.I.P Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey! 🎙🎙📻

[@marknowlin8356]

A big game for "Banana Ben" Oglivie. The Detroit Tigers have made many, many good trades over the years, and a few real clunkers. Their trade of Oglivie to the Milwaukee Brewers for P Jim Slaton following this season was in the latter category. Thank you so much for posting this gem!

[@jetsamperes5762]

I always remember him referred to as Benji - might have been George Kell that called him that.

[@ajk]

Ted Turner managerial announcement by Ernie at 9:09, pretty cool to get a game from this very brief period of time. Nice surprise.

[@michaelmeatheringham312]

Temporarily demoted Bristol to scout....... good (bad) times indeed!

[@kevinmiller6324]

Lyman Bostock. Poor guy needlessly gunned down in the prime of his life.

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

A belated birthday present for my girlfriend Carolyn! (Her birthday is May 11 which of course was yesterday.) That was the same day the Angels hit 3 consecutive home runs in a game--Bobby Bonds (yes, father of Barry Bonds) was one of them! May 11, 1977 fell on a Thursday.

[@kevinmiller6324]

At least Bobby didn't bulk himself up on steroids like his son, Barry, did.

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

@@kevinmiller6324 I remember that Lyman Bostock, as a member of the Angels, would not live to finish the 1978 season as you said.

[@crocks2871]

Tigers should have never traded Ben Oglivie as the upper deck in right at Tiger Stadium was his friend. I remember seeing Frank Tanana’s Tiger debut vs the brewers in 1985 and the only hit he allowed was a smash off the 3rd deck by Oglivie. I remember it like yesterday

[@shermanpearson926]

I remember this year well.. Carew challenge hitting.400...and finished at .388...my reds never could catch up with the dodgers who started the season at 14-4....

[@seanmcmonagle4012]

A few months before Trammell and Whitaker

[@monabiehl6213]

Birthday Game for me!

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires HP Bill Haller (Crew Chief) 1B Bill Kunkel 2B Ron Luciano 3B Ken Kaiser

[@gregchandler888]

Grew up with Ernie and Paul!

[@vote4carp]

1:09:30 Things were a bit different back then.

[@mikebattista9570]

Lyman Bostock is eternally alive here...

[@williamdunphy352]

Ernie Harwell (PBP) & Paul Carey (C) 1-3/7-9 Carey (PBP) & Harwell (C) 4-6

[@daviddesmet6160]

Two of the best, now we are stuck with Matt Shepard and Kirk Gibson on the TV side UGH! Dan Dickerson is also a great play by play guy

[@joeambrose3260]

104:00 Yes, that's TB ( Mr C )

[@allabouttropical6065]

27:15 LaBatt’s Baseball⚾️ Trivia Game!

[@learyfulton2279]

Ernie was the best baseball broadcaster the world has ever heard. The two clowns doing the Tigers games on the air are awful.

[@johnboehmer6683]

It's pretty much nothing but clowns anymore. Can't stand the homers, unprofessional buffoons somehow making a big check to do what all of us fans are. Describe the game for us, stop hooting and hollering!

[@allabouttropical6065]

2:12:37 New LaBatt’s Baseball ⚾️ Trivia Game!

[@kevinmiller6324]

I wonder if Paul Carey is still Harwell's broadcast partner?

[@GK-ev5rd]

Kevin Miller are you joking, surely you are trying to be funny? You are not funny at all.

[@mrgmills70]

@@GK-ev5rd he meant in the great booth in the sky.

[@JohnSmith-op1tc]

Not to shame a legend, but Ernie's trivia question at 36:48 has a flaw, in that his subject actually had eight 21-win seasons. We'll see if this gets rectified in the broadcast.

[@JohnSmith-op1tc]

Paul presented the right answer, no follow up to identify the 21 win seasons, (Ernie said the total is seven, again) for that hurler who retired to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

[@cosmicjerry8615]

📻 🧙‍♂️ ☕ ⚾

[@shermanpearson926]

The hall of fame is a joke in baseball..the best two players of this season are not in the hall of fame... George foster and Dave Parker....

[@beast1960]

No pre-game?

[@beast1960]

@Jim Bianco Obvious that it wasn't posted.

[@bobsheppard8773]

@@beast1960 stop complaining

[@beast1960]

Not complaining. Just wondering of something from that game that I'd like to listen to was in it.

[@beast1960]

@@bobsheppard8773 sometimes posters cut stuff out, but actually do have it.