13 Facts About Ty Tyson

Edwin Lloyd "Ty" Tyson was an American sports broadcaster and radio play-by-play announcer.

Ty Tyson was born in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania and he attended Penn State University.

Ty Tyson spent his early years jumping from job to job, including stints in the coal, wallpaper, and papermaking industries, a time in stationery with his father, and as a mercantile appraiser.

Ty Tyson handled announcing chores for various events at WWJ, including broadcasting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the opening of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

Ty Tyson was afraid broadcasting would hurt sales, but before the next home game Michigan was inundated with ticket requests.

Ty Tyson quickly became a popular figure with the team's fanbase.

Ty Tyson went on to call the 1935 Series and the 1936 Series nationally for NBC radio, and broadcast the 1941 All-Star Game for WWJ.

Ty Tyson continued broadcasting Tigers games on WWJ through 1942; the next year, the team granted exclusive broadcast rights to rival station WXYZ, with Harry Heilmann announcing.

Ty Tyson returned to call the Tigers' television broadcasts in 1947, and shifted back to radio in 1951 after Heilmann developed lung cancer.

Ty Tyson called Detroit Lions radio for one season, and broadcast the Gold Cup powerboat races, boxing, and other sporting events in Detroit.

On Father's Day in 1965, Ty Tyson was invited by the Tigers' then-current radio announcer, Ernie Harwell, to return to the booth as a guest commentator.

Ty Tyson died December 12,1968, at Cottage Hospital in Grosse Pointe Farms, from an arterial ailment.

Ty Tyson has been nominated on several occasions posthumously for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Ford C Frick Award and is yet to be named.