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After graduating from Emory University, his career began as a copy editor and sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution. In 1943, he began announcing games for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association, after which he served four years in the Marines. In 1948 Harwell became the only announcer in baseball history to be traded for a player when the Brooklyn Dodgers' General Manager, Branch Rickey, traded catcher Cliff Dapper to the Crackers in exchange for breaking Harwell's broadcasting contract.
Harwell later served as the play-by-play man for both the New York Giants and Baltimore Orioles before becoming the "Voice of the Detroit Tigers" from 1960 to 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom. He was fired in 1992, but a popular outcry led to his reinstatement on television the following year; he resumed full-time radio duties with the team in 1998.
Harwell was elected to the National Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1989, the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Radio Hall of Fame in 1998, and was honored by the Baseball Hall of FameNational Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum based in Cooperstown, New York, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related a in 1981 as only the fifth broadcaster to receive its Ford C. Frick AwardThe Ford C. Frick Award is an award bestowed annually by the Baseball Hall of Fame in the United States to a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball. It is named for Ford Christopher Frick, former Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Before his, among many other honors.