Longtime broadcaster Ernie Harwell, who spent 42 of his 55 years as a broadcaster calling Detroit Tigers games, has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer, several media outlets reported Thursday.

The 91-year-old Harwell, who was in the Tigers� broadcast booth from 1960 until he retired in 2002, remains upbeat after an inoperable tumor was found in the area of the bile duct.
Harwell tells the Detroit Free Press: �We don�t know how long this lasts. It could be a year, it could be much less than a year, much less than a half a year. Who knows? Whatever�s in store, I�m ready for a new adventure. That�s the way I look at it.�
Harwell was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 1989.