Ernie Harwell - Tuned to baseball (1985)

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There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

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With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

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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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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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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

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In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

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Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

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