Detroit Tigers Hall-of-Fame announcer Ernie Harwell has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer in his bile duct.  No definite time table has been put on his remaining days.

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 spent time in the hospital this past month with a blocked bile duct. That is when the doctors found the cancer and made the diagnosis.

Ernie was elected into the baseball Hall-of-Fame in 1981.  He retired from broadcasting in 2002, but has remained active by writing three books (4th due later this year) and doing commercials in the Detroit area.