by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
BOSTON — As the plane descended, I found myself recalling when I first came here for college. Which reminded me of my first dorm room. Which reminded me of the first thing I did in that dorm room. Which reminded me that nobody hooks up a stereo anymore.A recent...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford was running and screaming as if his uniform were on fire, imploring teammates to get up to the line, including left tackle Riley Reiff, who was prematurely celebrating halfway down the field. “Get up!” Stafford hollered. “Clock it!...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 27, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
As Jim Leyland made the rounds of the losing clubhouse last weekend, he got hugs and slaps from his players and coaches. If you were making a sociological study, it would have read: white man, late 60s, from Ohio, hugs young black man from Florida, beefy Venezuelan...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 22, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He wore a suit, and when baseball managers wear a suit they’re either coming or going. Jim Leyland, suddenly, was going. He sat behind a long table with an expansive view of an empty Comerica Park in front of him, blocked only by a horde of reporters who had...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 20, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
BOSTON All night long, the Green Monster in Fenway Park had been kicking it back, keeping them in it, keeping the last gasps of the Tigers’ season alive. A deep shot by Boston’s Jonny Gomes missed being a home run by a foot. The Tigers dodged that bullet....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 18, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
You go through a stop sign, you get pulled over. The Tigers began this night with a bad baseball play – Miguel Cabrera fruitlessly running into an easy tag at the plate – they continued it with a violent baseball play – Boston’s David Ross...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 17, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Austin Jackson will not say much, but you can just imagine. Here he was, demoted to batting eighth because he wasn’t producing as the leadoff man, and in his first at-bat of the night, he steps up … with the bases loaded.”Now batting, Austin...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 16, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Mitch AlbomSo now it was the Tigers in the bottom of the eighth. Less than 48 hours after suffering a demoralizing grand slam in that same inning in Fenway Park, here was Detroit, at home, with its own chance to put a hammer down and sneer at the irony of the baseball...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 15, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti When David Ortiz hit his grand slam Sunday night, lightning struck. No. I mean it. Lightning struck. We were sitting on an open-air balcony at an orphanage in Haiti, huddled around a filthy computer screen, and when Ortiz rocketed that ball into...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 10, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
How fast was Austin Jackson’s heart beating? All his failures were around him. The only way out was in front of him. Ten times he had struck out in this series – three times in this game already! – and there were two strikes on him again, in the...
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