Tiant, who is from Cuba, came to Boston after spending six years with the Cleveland Indians. He was signed as a free agent in 1978 with the New York Yankees and compiled a 21-17 record from 1979 ...

BOSTON – Luis Tiant, a Boston Red Sox pitching legend whose Major League Baseball career spanned 19 years, has died. According to the Red Sox, Tiant died at his home in Maine Tuesday morning.

Luis Tiant, #23 of the Boston Red Sox, looks into the camera for this portrait before a Major League Baseball game circa 1974. Tiant played for the Red Sox from 1971-78.

Tiant was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame but never made the national shrine in Cooperstown, New York, receiving a high of 30.9% of the votes in 1988, his first year on the ballot.

Luis Tiant was a Cuban American original. He was an All-Star pitcher with a Hall of Fame presence. He twerked before there was such a word. He twirled with the flair of a newly engaged debutante. H… ...

Luis Tiant, whose confounding array of pitches and deliveries helped make him the winningest Cuban-born pitcher in baseball history, as well as one of the game’s most popular and colorful ...

This despite 229 wins, a 3.30 career ERA and 2,416 strikeouts. Tiant won 20 games four times, was a three-time All-Star and led the American League in ERA twice: 1.60 in 1968 and 1.91 in 1972. By ...

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Luis Tiant. In a Major League career that spanned 19 seasons, “El Tiante” made three All-Star teams and won 20 or more games four times.

Tiant was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame but never made the national shrine in Cooperstown, New York, receiving a high of 30.9% of the votes in 1988, his first year on the ballot.

His father, Luis Sr., “Lefty” Tiant, was allowed by the Castro regime to leave Cuba to see his son pitch for the first time. They had been unable to see each other for 17 years.

Luis Tiant stats Over his 19-year MLB career with Boston, Cleveland, Minnesota, the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh and California, Tiant made 484 starts, going 229-172 with a 3.30 ERA.