There will never be another quite like Luis Clemente Tiant Vega, the legendary Cuban pitcher with the one-of-a-kind windup who thrived when the lights shone brightest. Tiant died on Tuesday at age 83,

For a couple of weeks at almost every spring training this century, Tiant and I lived in the same Florida hotel, and he became a friend of the family.

BOSTON (AP) — 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 pitched himself to the doorstep of the baseball Hall of Fame, has died. He was 83.