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Daily Inspiration Quote by Ernie Harwell

"Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job"

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Harwell isn’t angling for a heroic origin story; he’s insisting on an ecosystem. The sentence is clunky in that endearing, off-the-cuff way broadcasters get when they’re trying to be accurate and generous at the same time. That’s the point. He starts with “Also,” like he’s mid-thought at a banquet mic, and the humility is structural: “I’m a part of the people” flips the usual script where success is a lone-wolf narrative. He makes himself a component, not the headline.

The name-drop of “Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta” is more than polite credit. “Mr.” signals an older etiquette and a specific power dynamic: gatekeepers mattered, and breaking into baseball broadcasting wasn’t a meritocratic conveyor belt. Harwell’s subtext is gratitude, but it’s also a quiet reminder that careers get unlocked by someone saying yes at the right moment. By locating that yes in Atlanta, he sketches a map of baseball as a regional, relationship-driven culture before the era of brand management and curated personal mythologies.

There’s an emotional tact here too: he doesn’t say Mann “discovered” him, or that he “deserved” the chance. Mann “gave” him the job. The verb makes the debt explicit, but it also frames generosity as part of the game’s tradition. In a business obsessed with stats and legacy, Harwell chooses lineage: not numbers, not trophies, just the human handoff that made his voice possible.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Harwell, Ernie. (2026, January 15). Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/also-im-a-part-of-the-people-that-ive-worked-with-141192/

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Harwell, Ernie. "Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/also-im-a-part-of-the-people-that-ive-worked-with-141192/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/also-im-a-part-of-the-people-that-ive-worked-with-141192/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Ernie Harwell (born January 25, 1918) is a Celebrity from USA.

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