Excerpts of his well-known columns show Berry at best

In becoming the voice of a nation, Will Rogers produced thousands of bylines.

In becoming the voice of our state, Berry Tramel produced tens of thousands.

The Oklahoman sports columnist is as prolific as he is profound.

On the day he is inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, we take a look at some of Berry's most memorable moments:

After the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995:

We have been in the spotlight before. Patrick Sherrill killed 14 coworkers at the Edmond Post Office in 1986. But that was the work of a crazy man.

This was the work of a crazy world.

This made you wonder if throwing a ball or bouncing a baby, chasing a pup or grilling a burger would ever be the same.

That's why they call it terrorism . ...

Terrorism doesn't just break bones and slice skin and crush skulls. It breaks your heart and brands your soul.

After the monster tornado of May 3, 1999:

It killed 38 of our friends and neighbors.

Our spirit, it didn't touch.

That has been tried before. The Dust Bowl. The oil bust. The Edmond post office. The bomb. Nature's best shot and man's worst, we've weathered them all.

After OU football won the 2000 national title:

Noted thespian Denzel Washington flipped the pre-game coin, which is only fitting.

For Oklahoma Sooner fans should hold dear to their hearts and safely tuck into the corners of their minds the lads who staged this improbable revival. You should most definitely remember these titans.

After the OSU plane crash in 2001:

Ten good men died Saturday night, one time zone west, when a diving plane crashed, ripping a hole not just in a frozen field but in the heart of a tight-knit school.

In the last 10 years, basketball has brought OSU's greatest glory. Saturday night, it delivered OSU's saddest sorrow.

After details surfaced in 2007 about OSU linebacker Chris Collins' 2004 arrest for aggravated sexual assault:

She was 12 years old. Twelve years old and snuck out and hopped into a car with some older guys, and they drove her to the Comfort Suites and gave her vodka and orange juice, and she wandered in and out of consciousness, and they had sex with her.

As OSU suspends Collins for the rest of this season and tries to determine where to go from here, and the university wonders how its coach went from being the tough sheriff who ran off the bad seeds to the man who signed off on a sex offender, and some try to rationalize what happened that night in Texarkana, remember this.

She was 12 years old.

After a tornado killed school children in 2013 and Berry told the story behind the photograph of 6-year-old Hezekiah Darbon hugging his next-door neighbor Jim Routon, who Hezekiah had nicknamed "Big Dog":

“JIM!” Hezekiah screamed as he sped to Big Dog.

Routon bent down and Hezekiah didn't break stride. Jumped right into Big Dog's chest.

"He said, 'I knew you were going to catch me, Big Dog,'" Routon related. "'That's why I jumped.'"

And the next thing you know, the most famous hug in Oklahoma history was finding its way into newspapers from Hanoi to Dublin . ...

A special relationship between two vastly different people became a symbol of Oklahoma's strength.

After OU running back Joe Mixon punched female student Amelia Molitor in 2014:

He’s the guy who hit the girl.

No plea, no verdict, no court decision of any kind, will change that. Mixon has begun a sentence that will take years to serve. She said something, he said something, she slapped him. All just background noise, no matter the extenuating circumstances. When Mixon slugged Amelia Rae Molitor, he branded himself. And now Mixon lives with the consequences.

After Russell Westbrook and Berry had a locker-room dust up in 2015 that ended with the Thunder superstar saying "I don't like you":

The whole thing became a firestorm, but I actually was encouraged by the whole process. In all seriousness, I feel better about my relationship with Russell Westbrook than ever before. For this reason.

At least there is a relationship. I wasn't sure before.

After Kevin Durant left the Thunder for the Warriors in 2016:

We wanted to believe the narrative that Durant not only was a once-ina-generation player, he was a once-in-a-generation person.

Turns out Durant was ready to leave OKC, the franchise and the place, and was a typical Millennial.

We thought he was our Dirk Nowitzki.

Our Tim Duncan. Instead, Durant, born in 1988, a full decade after those NBA icons, seeks a ring through opportunity, rather than accomplishment.