Mitch Albom’s play celebrates those moments in this adept work: In a tunnel inside Comerica Park (Kirk Domer’s pitch-perfect set, and Daniel C. Walker’s strong lighting design), on Sept. 16, 2009, just before Harwell makes his final goodbye speech to his world of fans, it is raining. As he says, “In baseball, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains.”

Encore Michigan “Cheers and tears and baseball years” by Michael H. Margolin ^{(June 7, 2013)}