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.

In Boston, we remember his Red Sox career from 1971-78. Specifically, the 1975 season when Tiant had 18 wins and 18 complete games. The Red Sox took the Big Red Machine -- the Cincinnati Reds -- to a seventh and deciding game in one of the greatest World Series ever.

Cuban-born and charismatic, with a personal tale caught up in politics, he was a dominant hurler with a quirky windup who helped lead the Red Sox to a pennant in 1975.