Son of Havana: A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the Big Leagues and Back Audiobook (Free)

Luis Tiant is among the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Crimson Sox history-a cigar-chomping maestro who was simply the heart and soul of Boston’s teams in the 1970s. In his white polyester even, having a paunch in his stomach and a Fu Manchu mustache on his face, Tiant looked like a guy rolling out of bed to get a Sunday-morning beer little league. But nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be no more certified pitcher not however enshrined in the about Boy of Havana: A Football Trip from Cuba towards the Big Leagues and Back again Football Hall of Fame.

His big-league dreams came at a steep price-racism in the Deep South and the Boston suburbs, fifteen years separated from a family held captive in Castro’s Cuba. But baseball also delivered World Series stardom and a heroic go back to his island house after a half-century of pressured exile. The person whose name-‘El Tiante’-became a Fenway Park battle cry has never fully distributed his tale in his personal words, as yet.

In Son of Havana, Tiant puts his large heart on his sleeve and describes his street from fields strewn with stones and rubbish in Havana towards the pristine lawns of Major Little league ballparks. Ballplayers, family members, and press also weigh-in-including a foreword by fellow 1975 hero Carl Yastrzemski as well as the 1st in-depth interview ever with Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk within the magic behind the Boston batterymates.