A stage play about Ernie Harwell has opened at the City Theater in Detroit.
From author Mitch Albom's web site:
"Ernie" is set on Ernie Harwell's last night a Comerica, when the Hall Of Fame broadcaster is about to give a moving thank you to a grateful city. Just before he walks onto the grassy field, he encounters an unusual boy who wants to know all about him, coaxing Harwell into giving one final broadcast -- "the broadcast of his life."
Give me a break.
"Mr. Harwell, will there be a house by the side of the road in Heaven, and can I come see you in it?
I saw the game on TV, and prefer to remember Ernie Harwell's last appearance on a baseball field that way.
Further research reveals that, in Los Angeles, the baseball fan can take in a one-man show based on the relationship between Juan Marichal and John Roseboro.
Sigh ...
They made a movie about Jimmy Piersall's life.
So why not a musical based on the stormy career of Milton Bradley?
Props will be minimal: batting gloves, caps, nerf balls, foam rubber bats that look like the real thing.
Indians' radio announcer Tom Hamilton and Royals' TV announcer Ryan Lefebvre can play themselves.
All the songs will be angry, except for the finale, "I'm Really Not A Bad Person."
Instead of taking a curtain call, the cast comes back out on stage and throws their props at the audience, and curses them (theatergoers first saw this at the end of "Lee Elia -- The Man And The Fans He Loved").
It might be as popular as "Mamma Mia."
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