by Mitch Albom | Nov 10, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Every New Year’s Eve, Jim Leyland’s family gathers in his childhood home and participates in a tradition. The males in the family, from grandparents down to grandkids, take a piece of bread and a piece of coal, go out the back door – “which...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 9, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
See Detroit celebs at Legacies in Black and WhiteWhat can attendees expect at the Detroit Legacies in Black and White event at the Fox Theatre on Monday?A whole lot of a whole lot – with a vibe that might resemble a mix of a living-room conversation and a...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 4, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
TIGERS PIN CHAMPIONSHIP HOPES ON YOUNG, FIRST-TIME MANAGER BRAD AUSMUSHe kept hearing the name. Everywhere he went. BradAusmus.How about Brad Ausmus? Dave Dombrowski “had shaken Brad’s hand maybe twice in my life” but suddenly, by everyone’s...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
BOSTON — And then you stop playing. The heat escapes. The schedule empties. There is nothing left to battle but your thoughts.You saw it in the players’ postures after the final game Saturday night. The Tigers slumped on stools inside the Fenway Park clubhouse or...
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...
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