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1 online resource (442 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(epub) |
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| Summary |
"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 no more qualified twentieth-century pitcher not yet enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His big-league dreams came at a price: racism in the Deep South and the Boston suburbs, and nearly fifteen years separated from a family held captive in Castro's Cuba. But baseball also delivered World Series stardom and a heroic return to his island home after close to a half-century of forced exile. The man whose name-"El Tiante" -became a Fenway Park battle cry has never fully shared his tale in his own words, until now. In Son of Havana , Tiant puts his heart on his sleeve and describes his road from torn-up fields in Havana to the pristine lawns of major league ballparks. Readers will share Tiant's pride when appeals by a pair of US senators to baseball-fanatic Castro secure freedom for Luis's parents to fly to Boston and witness the 1975 World Series glory of their child. And readers will join the big-league ballplayers for their spring 2016 exhibition game in Havana, when Tiant-a living link to the earliest, scariest days of the Castro regime-threw out the first pitch."-- Provided by Freading. |
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| Subject |
Tiant, Luis, 1940-
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Baseball players -- Biography.
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Baseball -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wisnia, Saul, author.
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| ISBN |
9781635765427 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9781635765427 |
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