Ernie - The Play at Wharton Center for Performing Arts

“Looong gone,” but never forgotten! Mitch Albom’s hit play, Ernie, brings Detroit’s beloved Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell to the stage. Ernie is about to give a moving thank you to grateful fans. An unusual boy coaxes him into giving the “broadcast of his life.” Albom, the hugely successful author of Tuesdays With Morrie, has written a story of 20th-century Americana and a love affair with baseball. Ernie went through the Great Depression, World War II, the desegregation of sports – he also called some of the grandest moments ever witnessed on a ball field. The play features historic baseball moments and many unmistakable Harwell calls.