No, we do not overvalue or overstate our relationship with baseball broadcasters.
We didn’t with George Kell.
Nor with Ernie Harwell.
And we didn’t attach any particular unearned status to Paul Carey, who died Tuesday at age 88 after a final duel with cancer.
Baseball is life, and spirit, and important to our hearts, which means the people assigned to describe and relay the game to us are something akin to midwives. They help deliver joy even amidst the relative pain that also is part of any baseball season.
Paul Carey got it. He lived the mission and privilege that came with being not only a terrific Tigers broadcaster, but far more importantly, in performing his vocation as a marvelous radio newsman and professional.