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Report: Glasses back on Harwell statue

Published Sep. 20, 2011 1:00 a.m. ET

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A new pair of bronze glasses were placed on the statue of legendary Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell Tuesday following the brazen theft of the previous pair, WXYZ-TV reported.

Detroit Tigers officials said the glasses were pried from the statue sometime in July, though they do not know the exact time or circumstance of the theft.

"With 43,000 people a night coming through your turnstiles, things happen," said Tigers spokesman Ron Colangelo, according to the Detroit News.

The statue's creator admitted that even the new, reinforced pair can be removed if someone is determined enough.

"We're going to attach them as strongly as possible but if somebody has a crowbar and a little persuasion, you cannot keep the glasses on anybody. Anything that can break a car can break a statue," said Omri Amrany of the Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany in Fort Sheridan, Ill., where the statue was made.

The Tigers erected the statue outside Comerica Park in 2002, the baseball icon's last season in the broadcast booth. Harwell, the voice of the Tigers for 42 years, died in May 2010 at age 92.

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