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Luis Tiant, who pitched for six teams over a 19-year MLB career, has died. He was 83. "El Tiante" was a three-time All-Star and won 229 games with Cleveland, the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox ...
Luis Tiant, whose twisting windup helped him win 229 games in a 19-year major league career, has died. He was 83. The Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Guardians confirmed the right-hander's death on ...
Tiant was the only child of Luis Tiant Sr. and Isabel Vega. From 1926 through 1948, the senior Tiant was a great left-handed pitcher for the Negro league's New York Cubans during the summer and the Cuban professional league's Cienfuegos in the winter, his heroics being followed by hundreds of thousands of Cubans.
BOSTON (WPRI) — Luis Tiant, a member of the Red Sox Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 83, the team announced Tuesday.. In a statement, the team called Tiant “one of the most beloved figures ...
Major League Baseball announced his death in a post on X on Tuesday, and the Red Sox confirmed that he died at his home in Maine. Known as “El Tiante,” Tiant was a two-time All-Star whose greatest individual season came in 1968, when he went 21-9 with 19 complete games and nine shutouts — four of them in a row.
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. October 2024 1 Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian ...
Tiant's son, Luis Clemente Tiant, was a major league starting pitcher from 1964 to 1982. In August 1975, the elder Tiant and his wife were granted permission by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to visit the United States, so they could watch their son pitch in the major leagues. [ 4 ]
Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of the Hall of ...