A National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Famer, Red Smith Award winner Mitch Albom has written a syndicated column for the Detroit Free Press since 1985, archived here exclusively, free of charge. He also periodically writes for national magazines and other press outlets.
He also writes a newsletter, “Life at the Orphanage” from Have Faith Haiti, and hosts the weekly podcast, Tuesday People. He formery hosted the The Sports Reporters podcast with Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan.
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Stranded Tigers got what they deserved after letting Guardians hang around
CLEVELAND - The game was like a bus station during a transit strike. Stranded riders everywhere. The Detroit Tigers left two men on base in the first inning, another in the third, a pair in the fourth, two more in the fifth, two more in the sixth, two more in the...
Tarik Skubal didn’t just zap Guardians. He zapped Detroit Tigers fans’ bad memories
During the fourth inning of Game 1 of the Detroit Tigers-Cleveland Guardians wild-card series, an ESPN reporter asked Tigers manager A.J. Hinch when he might consider taking Tarik Skubal out of the game. “I hope never,” Hinch said. Why would he? The way Skubal pitched...
Mitch's first column
Give me a Sporting Chance, and I’ll Give it Right Back
AUG 8, 1985
Let’s start with an old joke.
On a plane trip home after a football game, Buck Buchanan, a massive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs, was sitting next to a sports writer. Buck had the aisle seat. The sports writer was by the window.
Dinner came, and they ate. Soon Buck fell asleep…
From the Press Box
Life at the Orphanage
Tuesday People Podcast
The Sports Reporters Podcast
(on hiatus)
Mitch Albom is nationally known sportswriter; columnist for the Detroit Free Press; author of Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People you Meet in Heaven and other best-selling books; TV and radio personality; and philanthropist. For the past five years, he has been working to help children orphaned after a devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. He writes about that effort here.
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Where Courage Lives
A small town shows its big heart after a horrific accident. Where are those lights coming from? It was late at night, and five students—two boys, three girls—w ere driving home from a dance. A tire went flat. They pulled over. It was a county road,...
If You Had One Day With Someone Who’s Gone…
Her world shattered in a telephone call. My mother was 15 years old. “Your father is dead,” her aunt told her. Dead? How could he be dead? Hadn’t she seen him the night before, when she kissed him goodnight? Hadn’t he given her two new...