The big summer for former Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland just got a little bit bigger. Ilitch Companies announced on Monday that the Tigers, owned by Christopher Ilitch, will retire Leyland's ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Jim Leyland’s family and friends, well-aware of how emotional he is, aren’t quite sure how Leyland will get through his Baseball Hall of Fame speech Sunday. Ahead of the ...

He likes to walk to work. Driving six blocks would be an extravagance, and that's something his father, the original Jim Leyland, couldn't abide. His dad was more like the people Leyland passes on ...