“For lo, the winter is past; the rains are over and gone; the
time of the singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle
is heard in our land.” Taken, of course, from the Bible’s Song
of Solomon, but many people in Michigan attribute those words to
Hall of Fame radio announcer Ernie Harwell, who, each February,
opened his first Tiger spring training broadcast from Lakeland,
Florida with the phrase. Ernie’s voice painted a happ...
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