Luis Clemente Tiant Vega () (born November 23, 1940) is a Cuban former
Major League Baseball
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(MLB) right-handed
starting pitcher. He pitched in MLB for 19 years, primarily for the
Cleveland Indians
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and the
Boston Red Sox
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.
Tiant compiled a 229–172 record with 2416
strikeouts, a 3.30 earned run average (ERA), 187 complete games, and 49 shutouts in innings. He was an
All-Star for three seasons and 20-game winner for four seasons. He was the
American League
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(AL) ERA leader in 1968 and 1972. He also was the AL leader in
strikeouts per nine innings pitched
In baseball statistics, strikeouts per nine innings pitched (K/9, SO/9, or SO/9IP) is the mean of strikeouts (or Ks) by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by multiplying the number of strikeouts by nine, and dividing by the numb ...
in 1967 and the AL leader in
shutouts
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Shutouts are usuall ...
in 1966, 1968, and 1974.
He was inducted to the
Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997, the
Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum
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Hall of Fame in 2002, the
Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
The Salón de la Fama y Museo del Béisbol Venezolano (in English, the ''Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum'') is a nonprofit institution operated by private interests, which was founded on April 18, 2002, thanks to the vision of Carlos ...
in 2009, and the
Baseball Reliquary
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's
Shrine of the Eternals in 2012.
Tiant was considered for election to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame via voting of the
Baseball Writers' Association of America
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from 1988 to 2002, and by the Hall of Fame's
era committees in 2011, 2014, and 2017, falling short of the required votes for induction each time.
Early years
Tiant is the only child of
Luis Tiant Sr. and Isabel Vega. From 1926 through 1948, the senior Tiant was a great left-handed pitcher for the
Negro league
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's
New York Cubans
The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950. Despite playing in the Negro leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics in ...
during the summer and the Cuban professional league's Cienfuegos in the winter, his heroics being followed by hundreds of thousands of Cubans. Luis, Jr. followed in his father's footsteps at an early age, joining both the local Little and Juvenile baseball leagues and rising to a star.
Cuba and Mexico
The 16 year-old Tiant was picked for the Cuban Juvenile League All-Star team in 1957. His talent drew the attention of former
Cleveland Indians
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All-Star,
Bobby Ávila, who was scouting for talent in Cuba. Avila recommended him to the
Mexico City Tigers of the
Mexican League
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The league has 18 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games each season. Five te ...
. Tiant was signed in 1959 for $150 a month, and for the next three years he divided his time between the Tigers and the
Havana Sugar Kings
The Havana Sugar Kings were a Cuban-based minor league baseball team that played from 1946 to 1960. From 1954 until 1960, they belonged in the Class AAA International League, affiliated with Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds. Their home ...
in the
International League.
Cleveland Indians system
At the end of the summer of 1961, and under Avila's recommendation, Cleveland purchased Tiant's contract for $35,000. But with the rise of
Fidel Castro's regime in his native Cuba—specifically, after heightened tensions following the US-sponsored
Bay of Pigs invasion in April of that year—it was impossible for Tiant to return home. He would not see his parents for 14 years.
Tiant progressed through the Indians' farm system beginning in 1962 with
Charleston of the Eastern League, then on to
Burlington, N.C., where he was one of the best pitchers in the Carolina League in 1963 and
Portland, Oregon
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, in 1964. Tiant recalled that at Charleston, "I couldn't speak very good English but I understand racism. They treated me like a dog, but when I got to Portland, I didn't have any problems " (Oregonian, September 6, 2010). After a 15–1 record at
Triple-A Portland which included a no-hitter and a one-hitter in consecutive starts, Tiant was called up by the Indians.
MLB career
Cleveland Indians
![Luis Tiant 1965](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Luis_Tiant_1965.jpeg)
On July 19, 1964, Tiant debuted in the
major leagues for the Cleveland Indians with a
four-single, 11
strikeout, 3–0
shutout
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Shutouts are usuall ...
victory against the defending
AL Champion New York Yankees
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at
Yankee Stadium
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Opened in April 2009, the stadium replaced the orig ...
. The losing pitcher was
Whitey Ford
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. Tiant finished his rookie season with a 10–4 record, 105 strikeouts, and a 2.83
ERA
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Comp ...
in 19 games.
Tiant broke through in , leading the
American League
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in ERA (1.60), shutouts (nine, including four consecutive), hits per nine innings (a still-standing franchise record 5.30, which broke
Herb Score
Herbert Jude Score (June 7, 1933 – November 11, 2008) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player and announcer. Score pitched for the Cleveland Indians from 1955 through 1959 and the Chicago White Sox from 1960 through 1962. He was ...
's 5.85 in and would be a Major-League record low until
Nolan Ryan
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gave up 5.26 hits/9 innings in ),
strikeouts per nine innings
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(9.22), while finishing with a 21–9 mark. His four consecutive
shutouts
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Shutouts are usuall ...
are matched by only four other pitchers in the 50-year expansion era, with
Don Drysdale (six, 1968),
Bob Gibson
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(five, 1968),
Orel Hershiser
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958) is an American former baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1983 to 2000. He later became a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers from 2002 to 2005 and a bro ...
(five, ) and
Gaylord Perry
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(four, ) being the others. Besides this, opposing hitters
batted just .168 off Tiant, a major league record, and on July 3 he struck out 19
Minnesota Twins in a ten-inning game, setting an American League record for games of that length. His 1.60 ERA in 1968 was the lowest in the American League since
Walter Johnson
Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "Barney" and "The Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right-ha ...
's 1.49 mark during the
dead-ball era
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in , and was eclipsed that season only by National Leaguer (
St. Louis Cardinals
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)
Bob Gibson
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's 1.12—the lowest ever during the
live-ball era
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. With Sam McDowell, Sonny Siebert, and others, the Indians staff led the AL in strikeouts for five consecutive years, including a record 1189 strikeouts in 1967, a record that would stand for 30 years.
Minnesota Twins
After an injury-plagued season in , Tiant was traded to the Minnesota Twins in a multi-player deal that brought fellow pitcher
Dean Chance and third baseman
Graig Nettles
Graig Nettles (born August 20, 1944), nicknamed "Puff", is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman. During a 22-year baseball career, he played for the Minnesota Twins (1967–1969), Cleveland Indians (1970–1972), New York Yankee ...
to the Indians. With Minnesota, Tiant began with six wins, but then he fractured his right
scapula
The scapula (plural scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone). Like their connected bones, the scapulae are paired, with each scapula on eith ...
, essentially ending his season and, some felt, his career. He showed some promise in the spring training, but he was released.
Boston Red Sox
![Luis Tiant 1970s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Luis_Tiant_1970s.jpg)
The
Braves signed him to a
minor league contract to play with their Triple-A
Richmond, where he pitched well, and was acquired by the Louisville Colonels, a farm team of the
Boston Red Sox
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. Tiant reinvented himself as a pitcher by altering his delivery so that he turned away from
home plate
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during his motion, in effect creating a hesitation pitch. According to Tiant, the new motion was a response to a drop in his velocity due to a shoulder blade injury. Twisting and turning his body into unthinkable positions, Tiant would spend more time looking at
second base than he did the plate as he prepared to throw.
He was quickly called back up to the majors, and struggled through 1971 with a 1–7 record and 4.88 ERA. Tiant regained his old form in with a 15–6 record and led the league with a 1.91 ERA. He would win 20 games in and 22 in en route to becoming known as El Tiante at
Fenway Park
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, , he would soon become one of the greatest and most beloved pitchers in Red Sox history and an idol in Boston.
Though hampered by back problems in , he won 18 games for the American League Champion Red Sox, then excelled for Boston in the postseason. In the
playoffs
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he bested the three-time defending World Champion
Oakland Athletics, allowing only three hits in a 7–1 complete-game victory, then opened the
World Series
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against
The Big Red Machine
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Cincinnati Reds. His father and mother, having been allowed to visit from
Cuba
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under a special visa, were in
Fenway Park
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that game to watch their son defeat the Reds 6–0 in a five-hit shutout.
Tiant won Game 4 as well (throwing 173 pitches in his second complete game in the series) and had a no-decision in Game 6, which has been called the greatest game ever played, after
Carlton Fisk's dramatic game-winning
walk-off home run
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in the 12th inning.
Tiant went 21–12 in , 12–8 in , and 13–8 in , furthering his status as one of the greatest and most beloved pitchers in Red Sox history.
New York Yankees
At the end of the 1978 season Tiant signed as a
free agent
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with the Yankees.
He compiled a 21–17 record in New York over two seasons from -
80.
Pittsburgh Pirates and California Angels
Tiant signed with the
Pittsburgh Pirates as a free agent in 1981, pitching in just 9 games and going 2–5 with a 3.92 ERA. He also appeared in 21 games (all starts) for the Pirates' Triple-A
Portland Beavers
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Franchise history
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of the
Pacific Coast League, posting a 13–7 record with 3.82 ERA.
He finished his career with a brief stint with the
California Angels in 1982, pitching in 6 games and going 2–2 with a 5.76 ERA.
Other leagues
Tiant competed in the
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
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History Early years
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in parts of seven seasons spanning 1963–1982, while compiling a record of 37–24 including 29 complete games, a 2.27 ERA,
and a
no-hitter in 1971. He was a member of the champion
Leones del Caracas
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teams of 1966–67 and 1967–68.
[ He gained induction into the ]Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
The Salón de la Fama y Museo del Béisbol Venezolano (in English, the ''Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum'') is a nonprofit institution operated by private interests, which was founded on April 18, 2002, thanks to the vision of Carlos ...
in 2009.
Tiant competed in the Senior Professional Baseball Association
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in 1989, initially signing with the Winter Haven Super Sox
The Winter Haven Super Sox were one of the eight original franchises that began play in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in 1989. The club, playing in the spring training site of the Boston Red Sox, featured numerous former Red Sox pla ...
.[ He was subsequently traded to the Gold Coast Suns, in exchange for outfielder ]Ralph Garr
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and 500 Teddy Ruxpin toy bears (for use as a fan giveaway item).[ Tiant had an 0–1 record with 5.00 ERA for the Suns.]
Post-playing days
Tiant was a minor league pitching coach in the Los Angeles Dodgers
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' farm system from 1992 to 1995, and in the Chicago White Sox
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's farm system in 1997.[ During the ]1996 Summer Olympics
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, he was the pitching coach for the Nicaraguan team.[
Tiant served as the head coach for the baseball team at the ]Savannah College of Art and Design
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Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Uni ...
, an NCAA Division III
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program, from 1998 to 2001,[ where his teams compiled a record of 55–97 for a .366 winning percentage.
In 2002, Tiant was the pitching coach for Boston's ]Class A Short Season
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affiliate, the Lowell Spinners
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, and has continued to serve as a special assignment instructor for the Red Sox.
Tiant, along with former batterymate Carlton Fisk, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before what proved to be the Red Sox' championship-winning Game 6 of the 2013 World Series
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at Fenway Park.
MLB statistics
Tiant's major league stats:
Hall of Fame candidacy
Tiant was on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot from to , but peaked at 30.9% of the votes in his first ballot year. According to election rules at the time, players were permitted on the Baseball Writers of America ballot for a maximum of 15 years.
He was considered again for induction by the Hall of Fame's own Golden Era Committee (for the 1947–1972 era) in and , and by the Modern Era Baseball Committee (for the 1970–1987 era) in , but again fell short. The Golden Era Committee was replaced in July 2016 by a 16-member Golden Days Committee, to vote from a 10 candidate ballot for the 1950–1969 era. The Golden Days Committee elected its first Hall of Fame members in December 2021 but Tiant was not among them. The Modern Baseball Committee votes for the second time in 2023, for induction into the Hall of Fame's Class of 2024.
Personal life
Tiant and his wife, Maria, have three children: Luis Jr., Isabel, and Daniel.[
An avid cigar smoker, Tiant launched a line of cigars that he formulated and designed, branding them with his nickname, ''El Tiante''. ]Tommy John
Thomas Edward John Jr. (born May 22, 1943), nicknamed "The Bionic Man," is an American retired professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 26 seasons between 1963 and 1989. He played for the Cleveland Indians, ...
remembered his cigars only too well from their days in the Indians organization. "Luis would smoke these horrendous, long, Cuban cigars. We'd be on the bus all night, and wake up to a thick blue haze from Tiant's ropes. Tiant had an almost supernatural ability for keeping a cigar lit. Luis would cut up in his high-pitched voice, joking, cackling, and the eternal flame held true. He could even take a shower and keep his stogie going. In the confined space of a bus, the smoke would gag you. He'd fall asleep on the bus, but the cigar would somehow stay alive all night."
Tiant appeared in an episode of '' Cheers'', "Now Pitching, Sam Malone", which first aired on January 6, 1983. Sam Malone
Samuel "Mayday" Malone is a fictional character on the American television show ''Cheers'', portrayed by Ted Danson and created by Glen and Les Charles. The protagonist of the series, Sam, a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox basebal ...
(Ted Danson
Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor. He achieved stardom playing the lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'', for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. ...
) agrees to do a television beer commercial, co-starring with and "relieving" Tiant when the latter begins to fail in his promotion of the product.
Tiant has authored two autobiographies:
* ''El Tiante, the Luis Tiant story'', written with Joe Fitzgerald, released in 1976
* ''Son of Havana: A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the Big Leagues and Back'', written with Saul Wisnia, released in May 2019
Legacy
Tiant is the subject of the documentary film ''The Lost Son of Havana'', produced by Kris Meyer and the Farrelly brothers
Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, collectively referred to as the Farrelly brothers, are American screenwriters and directors. They have made eleven films together, including ''Dumb and Dumber'', '' Outside Providence'', and '' There's Somethin ...
, and directed by Jonathan Hock. The story of his return visit to his roots in Cuba had its world premiere on April 23, 2009, at the Tribeca Film Festival
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, and was promptly acquired by ESPN Films
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.
See also
* List of Major League Baseball players from Cuba
*List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders
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* List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders
*List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders
:''This list is for pitchers. For career strikeouts by batters, see List of Major League Baseball career strikeouts by batters leaders
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References
Further reading
Baseball Hall of Fame: Tiant Delivered Over Brilliant Career
*
External links
Red Sox' All-Time Team
The Baseball Page
Baseball Library
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1940 births
Living people
American League All-Stars
American League ERA champions
Boston Red Sox players
Burlington Indians players (1958–1964)
California Angels players
Charleston Indians players
Cleveland Indians players
College baseball coaches
Diablos Rojos del México players
Gold Coast Suns (baseball) players
Industriales de Valencia players
Jacksonville Suns players
Leones del Caracas players
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from Cuba
Cuban expatriate baseball players in the United States
Minnesota Twins players
Minor league baseball coaches
New York Yankees players
People from Southborough, Massachusetts
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Portland Beavers players
Richmond Braves players
Sportspeople from Worcester County, Massachusetts
St. Lucie Legends players
Tiburones de La Guaira players
Tigres del México players
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Nicaragua
Baseball players from Havana