American baseball player and broadcaster (born 1941)
Baseball player
Ken Harrelson
Harrelson at U.S. Cellular Field in 2010
First baseman / Right fielder
Born: (1941-09-04) September 4, 1941 (age 82) Woodruff, South Carolina, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 9, 1963, for the Kansas City Athletics
Last MLB appearance
June 20, 1971, for the Cleveland Indians
MLB statistics
Batting average
.239
Home runs
131
Runs batted in
421
Teams
Kansas City Athletics (1963–1966)
Washington Senators (1966–1967)
Kansas City Athletics (1967)
Boston Red Sox (1967–1969)
Cleveland Indians (1969–1971)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (1968)
AL RBI leader (1968)
Kenneth Smith Harrelson (born September 4, 1941), nicknamed "the Hawk" due to his distinctive profile, is an American former professional baseball player and television announcer. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1971 as a first baseman and outfielder, and he subsequently spent 33 years as a play-by-play broadcast announcer for the Chicago White Sox. In December 2019, Harrelson was named the 2020 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to one broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball".
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most notably the White Sox, on whose telecasts he was teamed with KenHarrelson throughout the 1990s. Paciorek was known by the nickname "Wimpy," which...
season, Benetti replaced recently retired Hall of fame broadcaster KenHarrelson as the television play-by-play announcer for select Chicago White Sox...
was the target of Chicago White Sox announcer KenHarrelson for ejecting pitcher Jose Quintana. Harrelson claimed Wegner "knew nothing about the game of...
only one not living at that time was Ned Martin, who died in 2002. Ken "Hawk" Harrelson was announced as the winner on December 11. Joe Castiglione (Boston...
hero Carl Yastrzemski looked at a third strike for the second out, but KenHarrelson followed with a clutch single to left, scoring Foy. This would be enough...
(38,618) September 2, 2018: White Sox host Hawk Harrelson day to honor their announcer KenHarrelson in his final year of commentating. The White Sox...
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colleague KenHarrelson as he was calling that evening's game against the Baltimore Orioles at Comiskey Park for WGN television. Harrelson relayed the...
Joe Azcue and Vicente Romo from the Indians to the Boston Red Sox for KenHarrelson, Dick Ellsworth, and Juan Pizarro on April 19, 1969. Siebert spent five...
year). A 1993 game saw Garner refer to Chicago White Sox broadcasters KenHarrelson and Tom Paciorek as "idiots" for their on-air insinuation that Garner...
“Hawk: The Colorful life of KenHarrelson,” began airing on the MLB Network. At roughly the 22-minute mark of the presentation, Ken describes his involvement...
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others are Joe Garagiola, Tony Kubek, Tim McCarver, Bob Uecker and KenHarrelson.) He was inducted into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in 2001. In...
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