Feb 12, 2010 6:45 AM EST

Longtime Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell will receive the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Broadcasting.

He will receive the award on May 5 in New York. Harwell was the voice of the Tigers from 1960 to 2002.

Harwell said last September he has inoperable cancer, a month after surgery for an obstructed bile duct.

Via ESPN