Detroit Tigers legend Willie Horton had a street named in his honor Wednesday. Tony Paul, The Detroit News
Detroit — It looks different these days, the old neighborhood. The high rises from the Jeffries Housing Projects have made way for upscale townhomes, the old playground where Willie Horton hit some of his earliest prodigious home runs has been spruced up.
But some things never change.
"This is home," Horton said Wednesday, the latest day in his honor. "If I go downtown five days a week, I stop by here four times."