Son of Havana: A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the Big Leagues and Back

A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro's Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend.

Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball history. With a barrel-chested physique and a Fu Manchu mustache, Tiant may not have looked like the lean, sculpted aces he usually played against, but nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be ...