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Making a Comeback for Kids

Once-struggling club is revived under new leadership

Flint, Mich.

Long before the latest national economic slowdown, this industrial town, where General Motors was founded a century ago, started to face tough times.

Flint has lost more than 80,000 auto-manufacturing jobs since the 1980s, as domestic carmakers trimmed the size of their...

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