# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernie-harwell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:21.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernie-harwell"
name: "Ernie Harwell"
slug: "ernie-harwell"
description: "William Earnest Harwell was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 seasons, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell broadcast the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked him 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time."
tagline: "American sportscaster (1918–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernie_Harwell_-_WJROneOfAKind.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1918-01-25"
deathDate: "2010-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.85
  momentum:             6.54696132596685
  historical:           6.865736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367781/"
    handle:    "nm0367781"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/16c439b7-8a53-4f17-8495-875946c68a0b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "إيرني هارويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ايرنى هارويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Harwell"
    title: "Ernie Harwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Harwell"
    title: "Ernie Harwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Harwell"
    title: "Ernie Harwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%84%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E5%93%88%E7%B6%AD%E7%88%BE"
    title: "厄尼·哈維爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1079769"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3742029"
    title: "Ernie Harwell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump