Comments on: The Courage of Detroit https://www.mitchalbom.com/the-courage-of-detroit/ #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Chris Jacques https://www.mitchalbom.com/the-courage-of-detroit/#comment-5777 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:00:12 +0000 http://mitchalbom.com/dev.mitchalbom.com/?p=6355#comment-5777 Not from around here, but happened upon this article when visiting about the time it was finally submitted to SI. Have had many opportunities to inquire with folks I encounter in mine line of work (mainly semi drivers from Michigan) if they were familiar with the article. Gives me great pleasure to know they were not, and to feel the pride in US, knowing that they would read it and feel the same. Thanks Mitch!

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Nice

]]> By: tracy@ https://www.mitchalbom.com/the-courage-of-detroit/#comment-1663 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:39:43 +0000 http://mitchalbom.com/dev.mitchalbom.com/?p=6355#comment-1663 I don’t live there anymore, but once a Detroiter, always one, and as such, I appreciate the way you captured the essence of the city that still struggles today. It’s tough to think back even further, before you and I were even an idea, to the glory days of the city with its crowds of shoppers bustling along the sidewalks with show-goers. My praise goes to you and others who are working to bring Detroit back from its dismal days to something better.

My father was one of those humble athletes, like the ones you wrote about, and then he was a humble coach in Motown. You are absolutely right, Mitch, about our sports heroes. My father, a man of the ice, worked with inner-city kids, teaching them how to play the great game of hockey, but even more importantly, how to stay in school, study, and get scholarships. Some went further than they ever dreamed possible. It’s the merging of sports hero with city hero. And that’s what makes Detroit sports great.

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