I know of no other voice from my life, that when I close my eyes and lay back and just listen, it takes me back to my childhood. Summer nights with the old radio in my parents kitchen blasting out the game so that we could hear it outside in the backyard. Or, that little transistor radio that I had that hung on my bedpost and I would sneak and turn it on low to hear the end of a late night game when I was supposed to be sleeping. It was Ernie Harwell describing those games. It's amazing how just the sound of this man can bring up so many memories. What a treasure we had in Detroit for all those years! Soft spoken Ernie along with that booming voice of his partner Paul Carey. Man...what a combo that was!
A1Adaydreaming I consider myself to be lucky to have had Ernie and Paul as my first tandem. I’ve judged all by the standard of excellence that they set since my grandfather gave me my first transistor radio as a 4 year old and tuned it to WCEN in Mt Pleasant.
Agreed. I grew up on the Eastside of Detroit. During the '70s, you could walk down the street and listen to the game, because people on their porch would have the game on the radio
One of the greatest memories of my childhood. I was a 12 year old total die-hard Tiger fan during this pennant race and I was SO happy when they won this game! Then the damn Twins ruined my dreams of seeing them win again. I had just turned 9 when the Tigers won the World Series in '84 and I wasn't much of a baseball fan yet so I kind of missed out on that. The very 1st game I watched start to finish with my Dad was Game 5 against the Padres and it turned me into a life long Tiger fan!
Tigers faced the Blue Jays for 7 epic games, away/home, toward the end of the 1987 season-all 7 games were decided by one run. Had it been a World Series, it would have gone down as one of the best ever. But after that, the Tigers were gassed. They had nothing left for Minnesota. PS, what a treat to hear Ernie Harwell, God’s gift to baseball and its fans.
When this happens today, the announcers go ape shit and scream like maniacs. They do it on walk-off wins in mid June too. And here Ernie just tells it like it is without acting like a crazed lunatic. I miss his style
this is the first time I've heard this as I watched the game on TV & heard George Kell describe the game. ernie & george were the two best broadcasters ever IMO
kc8ntp Sorry for your loss. I sat in my grandmother's chair as the Tigers won the 84 series. My grandparents were avid fans. She died months before and my mother was on a blind date with an NBC executive who was taking her to an after game party. They were downtown and people were shaking their car. Someone shared with her grass from the field and she gave it to me but of course it died and was just dirt. I lost it eventually.
Baseball was different then. There's no way that today a manager would leave his starter in to finish a game with a 1-run lead in a must-win game like this! This is my first time hearing this as I watched on TV at the time LOL. RIP Ernie
I was there! Sitting alone way up in the third deck press box. I had finagled press credentials working at a tiny podunk radio station in Fenton. Had no business being there, but I stayed out of everyone’s way. I ate a lot of free hot dogs in the press room.
If Any person that Listens to these Broadcasts of the Legend, and Gives a Down Thumb,,,,,,,, Was Never a Tiger Fan ,that Never owned a Radio To Keep up on Out Big Cats each Night..... I Miss That Man Voice!!!!!!!
This will always be one of the best wins in Tiger history. This team was dead in the water and pulled it out with the blessed And aged Frank Tanana striking out 9 Jays in a CG shutout at Tiger Stadium on Sunday. I heard this call at the cider mill I worked at, thank you for the posting
was at the 3 games the ended the season.. lusader homer the lee error and the 1-0 shut out... man where does time go 41 years old something you can not ever take away from a childhood memory.. u can hear ernie's voice crackle...
THIS IS GREAT! First time I ever heard this as I was at this game (actually all three of them!) with my buddy from Ferris. We were sitting about five rows behind the guys that caught Herndon's homer in the lower deck of LF. The place was up for grabs, man it was fun! Thanks for posting this!
I remember that year as a Toronto fan, George Bell stating "When playoff time comes....." with 2 weeks to go and I remember saying to myself.. "Don't say that, you haven't won it yet" and boy did the Blue Jays choke that year.
Thanks for the upload! One minor point: this was the last regular season game, not a one-game playoff. The Tigers finished the season at 98-64, and the Blue Jays finished it at 96-66. Besides the style of the announcers, there's another reason that a game like this will never happen again. Frank Tanana pitched a complete game. In a game like this today, Tanana would be pulled by 7th inning, despite him being so dominant (complete game shutout, 9 strikeouts).
My dad and a couple of my uncles were at this game. I was 8 years old. We had outfield seats along the 3rd base line. We had a great view of Herndon's home run. The atmosphere outside the stadium afterwards was electric.
The Toronto Blue Jays made one of the most epic collapses in baseball history that year. This game epitomized it. The Tigers were only up 1-0, of course, in the 9th inning, so the Blue Jays just needed a couple runs to take the lead. Yet I remember them showing the Blue Jays' dugout, and everybody there had this dejected, defeated look on their face. Said it all right there.
Very nice to hear Jim Walewander's name called on that second out. That Sparky, who seemed to hate rookies (or anyone who didn't act fit the typical mold), ever played the punk rock utility infielder still amazes me to this day. A good friend of mine still has a Dead Milkmen lp in its shrink wrap, with a sticker that reads "Detroit Tigers' Jim Walewander's favorite band!"
Thing is, Toronto needed just one run to tie it - yet this whole inning, they were sitting in the dugout completely dejected. This was their 7th straight loss to end the season, and they were defeated in more ways than one.
@Mcnzlea They had 4 TV networks there that day. WDIV - Tiger's Over The Air Network PASS - Tiger's Cable Network ABC - National Broadcast CTV - Blue Jay's Canadian Broadcast Yes - the game started at 3pm; I worked that day and made sure the VCR was set to record.
@ckendall67 Larry Herndon hit the solo shot into the left field stands and Frank Tanana was catching. I forgot whether Heath or Nokes was catching that game. I actually watched on channel 4 that Sunday. I think that week or 2 beforhand the Blue Jays were up like 4 and half games.
I was at this game. Sat in the upper deck in left field; second row from the top. My greatest "live" Tiger memory until Maggs hit the clinching HR in Game #4 of the 2006 ALCS. By the way, this was not Game #163 of the 1987 season. This was Game #162. The Tigers finished 98-64 that season. Tigers had a one game lead going into this game. If the Blue Jays had won this game, there would have a one game playoff. Thankfully, the Tigers won this game and therefore did not need to play an extra game.
If Jim Leyland were managing the Tigers back then; Tanana would have been taken out; And if Tanana were Max Scherzer; he be saying i am done; take me out; What a crock of shit!
Dan Holmes is correct. If the Blue Jays had won one game in the series, there would have been a game 163 in Detroit. As it turned out, though, that was not necessary.
Detroit caused a lot of pain for the city of Toronto in 1987. Besides the Tigers beating the fading Blue Jays in the fall, the Red Wings a few months earlier beat the Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I think the Leafs blew a 3-1 lead in that series.
Yes, this was game 162, but the Tigers were up by a game going into this game. Had they lost, they would have had to play a 163rd game. Tigers won and won the division by 2 games. Then they went on to lose to a Minnesota Twins team that won only 85 games. Still hate the Twins because of this.
1st time I heard this, since I was there on that warm bright Sunday day in 1987. Upper left bleachers, near the flag pole, 3rd roll. They burned a Canadian flag and Blue Jay cap up there! That was one of the greatest moments of my life, and I had to beg my boss to let me off early from work that day, and he let me go. The bleachers were all that was left, and I sat there in that same area, until they closed it in 1999. It over until ARETHA FRANKLIN SINGS!
Great comeback by the Tigers and one of the greatest chokes of all time by the Blue Jays. They lost seven straight and blew a 4 1/2 game lead in the final week. Still can't believe Bell won the MVP over Trammell, Cosell was right about stupid sportswriters.
Undeserving for sure! In the last six games, when the Blue Jays were making their epic collapse - IMO, 2nd in history only to the '64 Phillies - Bell went 2 for 22 with 0 RBI. Where was he then? Nowhere to be found. Trammell was robbed of the MVP.
@vidlivs Oh, the sour grapes. Blame Madlock all you want, the long and short of it is that one win earlier in the season and there would have been a game following the one we hear here. One win in milwaukee earlier in the week would have done it. One win in the previous couple of days in Detroit, and that Sunday game wouldn't have mattered. If you're going to blame someone, blame your MVP for not coming through in the clutch.
why game 163? wasn't it the last game of the season (#162)? i thought if Toronto had won the game, they would have played another game to decide the champion.
@21middleman Because it was NOT Game 163 as mentioned above; there was no playoff between the Jays & Tigers. Detroit led Toronto by 1 game heading into that final Sunday, the Jays needed a win to force a 1-game playoff, however, the Tigers shut out Toronto 1-0 & clinched the division on the last day of the regular season...
Toronto easily would have one this division, pennant and world series, if not for Tony Fernandez and Ernie Whitt getting hurt. They pitched around George Bell the entire series. Ernie Whitt always hit well in Tiger Stadium. What a team !! Bell, Barfield, Fernandez,Fielder, McGriff,Steib,Key,Henke,and of course, Manny Lee......
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I know of no other voice from my life, that when I close my eyes and lay back and just listen, it takes me back to my childhood. Summer nights with the old radio in my parents kitchen blasting out the game so that we could hear it outside in the backyard. Or, that little transistor radio that I had that hung on my bedpost and I would sneak and turn it on low to hear the end of a late night game when I was supposed to be sleeping. It was Ernie Harwell describing those games. It's amazing how just the sound of this man can bring up so many memories. What a treasure we had in Detroit for all those years! Soft spoken Ernie along with that booming voice of his partner Paul Carey. Man...what a combo that was!
A1Adaydreaming I consider myself to be lucky to have had Ernie and Paul as my first tandem. I’ve judged all by the standard of excellence that they set since my grandfather gave me my first transistor radio as a 4 year old and tuned it to WCEN in Mt Pleasant.
Agreed. I grew up on the Eastside of Detroit. During the '70s, you could walk down the street and listen to the game, because people on their porch would have the game on the radio
What a legend. Thank you Ernie.
Best Broadcaster , Hands Down !!
One of the greatest memories of my childhood. I was a 12 year old total die-hard Tiger fan during this pennant race and I was SO happy when they won this game! Then the damn Twins ruined my dreams of seeing them win again. I had just turned 9 when the Tigers won the World Series in '84 and I wasn't much of a baseball fan yet so I kind of missed out on that. The very 1st game I watched start to finish with my Dad was Game 5 against the Padres and it turned me into a life long Tiger fan!
Tigers faced the Blue Jays for 7 epic games, away/home, toward the end of the 1987 season-all 7 games were decided by one run. Had it been a World Series, it would have gone down as one of the best ever. But after that, the Tigers were gassed. They had nothing left for Minnesota. PS, what a treat to hear Ernie Harwell, God’s gift to baseball and its fans.
When this happens today, the announcers go ape shit and scream like maniacs. They do it on walk-off wins in mid June too. And here Ernie just tells it like it is without acting like a crazed lunatic. I miss his style
Omg those CALLs by Ernie!!! He’s a genius!!! Eat your heart out!!!
this is the first time I've heard this as I watched the game on TV & heard George Kell describe the game. ernie & george were the two best broadcasters ever IMO
The Blue Jays / Tigers rivalry was a lot of fun.
I will always remember this game, since it was the last game that my great-grandmother and I listened to before her death.
kc8ntp Sorry for your loss. I sat in my grandmother's chair as the Tigers won the 84 series. My grandparents were avid fans. She died months before and my mother was on a blind date with an NBC executive who was taking her to an after game party. They were downtown and people were shaking their car. Someone shared with her grass from the field and she gave it to me but of course it died and was just dirt. I lost it eventually.
Baseball was different then. There's no way that today a manager would leave his starter in to finish a game with a 1-run lead in a must-win game like this!
This is my first time hearing this as I watched on TV at the time LOL. RIP Ernie
And to think the Tigers started out with an 11 - 19 record after 30 games and won 98 that year!
I was there! Sitting alone way up in the third deck press box. I had finagled press credentials working at a tiny podunk radio station in Fenton. Had no business being there, but I stayed out of everyone’s way. I ate a lot of free hot dogs in the press room.
If Any person that Listens to these Broadcasts of the Legend, and Gives a Down Thumb,,,,,,,, Was Never a Tiger Fan ,that Never owned a Radio To Keep up on Out Big Cats each Night.....
I Miss That Man Voice!!!!!!!
This will always be one of the best wins in Tiger history. This team was dead in the water and pulled it out with the blessed And aged Frank Tanana striking out 9 Jays in a CG shutout at Tiger Stadium on Sunday. I heard this call at the cider mill I worked at, thank you for the posting
was at the 3 games the ended the season.. lusader homer the lee error and the 1-0 shut out... man where does time go 41 years old something you can not ever take away from a childhood memory.. u can hear ernie's voice crackle...
THIS IS GREAT! First time I ever heard this as I was at this game (actually all three of them!) with my buddy from Ferris. We were sitting about five rows behind the guys that caught Herndon's homer in the lower deck of LF. The place was up for grabs, man it was fun! Thanks for posting this!
I remember that year as a Toronto fan, George Bell stating "When playoff time comes....." with 2 weeks to go and I remember saying to myself.. "Don't say that, you haven't won it yet" and boy did the Blue Jays choke that year.
Thanks for the upload! One minor point: this was the last regular season game, not a one-game playoff. The Tigers finished the season at 98-64, and the Blue Jays finished it at 96-66.
Besides the style of the announcers, there's another reason that a game like this will never happen again. Frank Tanana pitched a complete game. In a game like this today, Tanana would be pulled by 7th inning, despite him being so dominant (complete game shutout, 9 strikeouts).
My dad and a couple of my uncles were at this game. I was 8 years old. We had outfield seats along the 3rd base line. We had a great view of Herndon's home run. The atmosphere outside the stadium afterwards was electric.
The Toronto Blue Jays made one of the most epic collapses in baseball history that year. This game epitomized it. The Tigers were only up 1-0, of course, in the 9th inning, so the Blue Jays just needed a couple runs to take the lead. Yet I remember them showing the Blue Jays' dugout, and everybody there had this dejected, defeated look on their face. Said it all right there.
Jimmy walwander!!!!
Was there. Upper deck left field line box seats, almost to foul pole. Good view of Herndon’s homer
Very nice to hear Jim Walewander's name called on that second out. That Sparky, who seemed to hate rookies (or anyone who didn't act fit the typical mold), ever played the punk rock utility infielder still amazes me to this day. A good friend of mine still has a Dead Milkmen lp in its shrink wrap, with a sticker that reads "Detroit Tigers' Jim Walewander's favorite band!"
I was at this game
Thing is, Toronto needed just one run to tie it - yet this whole inning, they were sitting in the dugout completely dejected. This was their 7th straight loss to end the season, and they were defeated in more ways than one.
Frank blows his arm out retooled his mechanics learned how to pitch all over again and became an excellent pitcher once again.
Cecil Fielder batted leadoff in the ninth for Toronto. Never knew that. I was at work listening but couldn't catch everything.
@Mcnzlea
They had 4 TV networks there that day.
WDIV - Tiger's Over The Air Network
PASS - Tiger's Cable Network
ABC - National Broadcast
CTV - Blue Jay's Canadian Broadcast
Yes - the game started at 3pm; I worked that day and made sure the VCR was set
to record.
@ckendall67 Larry Herndon hit the solo shot into the left field stands and Frank Tanana was catching. I forgot whether Heath or Nokes was catching that game. I actually watched on channel 4 that Sunday. I think that week or 2 beforhand the Blue Jays were up like 4 and half games.
I was at this game. Sat in the upper deck in left field; second row from the top. My greatest "live" Tiger memory until Maggs hit the clinching HR in Game #4 of the 2006 ALCS. By the way, this was not Game #163 of the 1987 season. This was Game #162. The Tigers finished 98-64 that season. Tigers had a one game lead going into this game. If the Blue Jays had won this game, there would have a one game playoff. Thankfully, the Tigers won this game and therefore did not need to play an extra game.
If Jim Leyland were managing the Tigers back then; Tanana would have been taken out; And if Tanana were Max Scherzer; he be saying i am done; take me out; What a crock of shit!
Al Michaels said in the tigers get the final out "and the tigers face the twins"
Dan Holmes is correct. If the Blue Jays had won one game in the series, there would have been a game 163 in Detroit. As it turned out, though, that was not necessary.
Damn Albany had a major snow storm in early October
Detroit caused a lot of pain for the city of Toronto in 1987. Besides the Tigers beating the fading Blue Jays in the fall, the Red Wings a few months earlier beat the Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I think the Leafs blew a 3-1 lead in that series.
Actually this was game 162. They were tied heading into the last day of the season.
Yes, this was game 162, but the Tigers were up by a game going into this game. Had they lost, they would have had to play a 163rd game. Tigers won and won the division by 2 games. Then they went on to lose to a Minnesota Twins team that won only 85 games. Still hate the Twins because of this.
@@kristopherloviska9042 Tigers were totally gassed after 7 one-run games vs. Toronto. They were horrible against Minnesota.
Won't have to worry about fans running on the field in 2013; That will never happen again! EVER!
rocky shur. The 84 world series was the last time fans rushed the field anywhere because of the aftermath of the 84 win.
1st time I heard this, since I was there on that warm bright Sunday day in 1987. Upper left bleachers, near the flag pole, 3rd roll. They burned a Canadian flag and Blue Jay cap up there! That was one of the greatest moments of my life, and I had to beg my boss to let me off early from work that day, and he let me go. The bleachers were all that was left, and I sat there in that same area, until they closed it in 1999. It over until ARETHA FRANKLIN SINGS!
You never see fans act like that again at a sporting event. Can't even blow a fart at Comerica Park;
Toronto in that last week of the season, in the words of Keith Olberman when he was at ESPN, GAHHHHHHHHH!!!
Great comeback by the Tigers and one of the greatest chokes of all time by the Blue Jays. They lost seven straight and blew a 4 1/2 game lead in the final week. Still can't believe Bell won the MVP over Trammell, Cosell was right about stupid sportswriters.
Undeserving for sure! In the last six games, when the Blue Jays were making their epic collapse - IMO, 2nd in history only to the '64 Phillies - Bell went 2 for 22 with 0 RBI. Where was he then? Nowhere to be found. Trammell was robbed of the MVP.
The worst MVP screw in the history of MLB. Alan deserved it totally.
As Keith Olberman would have said during his ESPN days, the Blue Jays in the final week of the season, GAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
None of this seemed to matter when the Tigers were upset by the Minnesota Twins.
Salty Blue Jays fan eh?
I was there too! Centerfield bleachers. i can prove it too because the next day i ended up on the back page of the Detroit Free Press!
Tanana was nasty with that 68 mph bender.
@vidlivs Oh, the sour grapes. Blame Madlock all you want, the long and short of it is that one win earlier in the season and there would have been a game following the one we hear here. One win in milwaukee earlier in the week would have done it. One win in the previous couple of days in Detroit, and that Sunday game wouldn't have mattered. If you're going to blame someone, blame your MVP for not coming through in the clutch.
why game 163? wasn't it the last game of the season (#162)? i thought if Toronto had won the game, they would have played another game to decide the champion.
where was Lou?
@21middleman Because it was NOT Game 163 as mentioned above; there was no playoff between the Jays & Tigers. Detroit led Toronto by 1 game heading into that final Sunday, the Jays needed a win to force a 1-game playoff, however, the Tigers shut out Toronto 1-0 & clinched the division on the last day of the regular season...
Toronto easily would have one this division, pennant and world series, if not for Tony Fernandez and Ernie Whitt getting hurt. They pitched around George Bell the entire series. Ernie Whitt always hit well in Tiger Stadium. What a team !! Bell, Barfield, Fernandez,Fielder, McGriff,Steib,Key,Henke,and of course, Manny Lee......