Luis Tiant dead at 83

[Ford2112]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/08/metro/luis-tiant-obituary-red-sox-pitcher/

 

Legend

[chris12381]

El Tiante

The Lost Son of Havana

 

[anacostiakat]

He was a monster. Great player. RIP

[BrightonCorgi]

Luis Tiant lived down the street from my grandparents (in Milton, MA) when he played on the Red Sox. Wollaston Country Club was directly next to his house. Wollaston Country Club would not let him become a member because he was not "white".

I was chatting with Luis once at a Red Sox game. His son or nephew launched a line of cigars and we talked about cigars for a good 15 minutes. We were on the same page about the sizes of cigars and what we like from them.

[joeypots]

One of the greatest pitchers ever to play with the Red Sox. RIP, Luis.

10 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Wollaston Country Club was directly next to his house.  Wollaston Country Club would not let him become a member because he was not "white".

Ah, Boston and the race thing. Jim Rice had a similar experience the Vesper Country Club in Tyngsborough.

[BrightonCorgi]

6 hours ago, joeypots said:

One of the greatest pitchers ever to play with the Red Sox. RIP, Luis.

Ah, Boston and the race thing. Jim Rice had a similar experience the Vesper Country Club in Tyngsborough.

I don't think Wollaston Country Club allows/allowed Jews to join either. Similar story with country club in Falmouth that escapes me at the moment. Paul Fireman opened his own club that was better after not being allowed to join.

[joeypots]

5 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

I don't think Wollaston Country Club allows/allowed Jews to join either. Similar story with country club in Falmouth that escapes me at the moment. Paul Fireman opened his own club that was better after not being allowed to join.

Telemachus "Mike" Demoulas did the same thing in Tewksbury. The Vesper CC made big mistakes not letting people in based on race and ethnicity. Good old progressive Boston. Everyone is equal as long as people know their place. 

[Woody Hayes]

Rose now Tiant. 

[BrightonCorgi]

9 hours ago, joeypots said:

Telemachus "Mike" Demoulas did the same thing in Tewksbury. The Vesper CC made big mistakes not letting people in based on race and ethnicity. Good old progressive Boston. Everyone is equal as long as people know their place. 

It's the Jew or Greeks who were not allowed at country clubs around. They're white, but not welcome. Crazy to think this is recent times in one of the most self-righteous liberal states.

[JohnS]

October 8, 2024 - Charlie Minato

Luis Tiant, Red Sox Great, Passes Away at 83

Before athletes like Ray Lewis and Mike Tyson lent their names to cigars, there was El Tiante. On Oct. 8, Luis “El Tiante” Tiant, the Cuban-born pitcher, passed away at the age of 83.

He is best known for the eight years he spent with the Boston Red Sox. During his nearly two-decade career, he amassed more than 2,416 strikeouts and 47 shutouts over nearly 3,500 innings pitched. He was a three-time All-Star and two-time American League ERA leader.

Tiant was born in Marianao, a suburb of Havana, in 1940. A Cleveland Indians scout spotted a young Tiant, who then went to the Mexican league before joining the Indians. He would play for the Indians, Twins, Red Sox, Yankees, Pirates and Angels before retiring in 1982.

From his time with the Indians, Tiant was a known cigar smoker saying that he would smoke cigars both before and after games, though never during the ones he pitched in. After retiring, he worked with his family to launch the El Tiante cigar brand in 2011, first working with Tabacalera Tambor before moving production to My Father Cigars S.A. in 2012. Unfortunately, even after the move to My Father, the El Tiante brand failed to catch on as intended.

“Today we lost a great man,” said Mike Bellody, who once served as the president of Tiant Cigar Group, LLC. “Luis was one of the kindest humans I’ve ever known.”

While Tiant was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame, he is not a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, though that could change. His story, especially his pioneering status as a star Cuban pitcher who played in the U.S. during the rise of Fidel Castro, has been chronicled in many books and a documentary, The Lost Son of Havana.

Image David Shankbone via Wikimedia

Source: https://halfwheel.com/luis-tiant-red-sox-great-passes-away-at-83/443951/