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	Luis Tiant Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Luis Tiant was born on Saturday, November 23, 1940, in Marianao, Cuba.
		Tiant was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 19, 1964, with the Cleveland Indians.
		Luis Tiant Autograph on a 1981 Fleer (#82)
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=tiantlu01 (299 words)

	Luis Tiant \| The BASEBALL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant was born in Cuba, the land where his father, Luis Sr., had starred as a pitcher for more than two decades.
		The victory was the last for Luis in a Boston uniform, as he was signed by the hated Yankees as a free agent prior to the ’79 season.
		Tiant led the league in ERA (1.60) and shutouts (9).
	www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/tiantluis (873 words)

	Hire Luis Tiant for Motivational Speaking Engagements, Autograph Signings and Corporate Events
		Tiant was the Comeback Player of the Year in 1972 for a contending Boston Red Sox team.
		Tiant got a hit in each game after batting once all season, and his adventuresome trips from base to base (he scored each time) while bundled in a warm-up jacket provided comic relief in an otherwise tense series.
		Tiant won 20 for the last time in 1976 (21-12), but he was no longer the overpowering pitcher he once had been.
	www.motivational-celebrity-speakers.com /players/luistiant.html (429 words)

	Luis Tiant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant was signed, and for the next three years he divided his time with the Tigers and for the (Click link for more info and facts about Havana Sugar Kings) Havana Sugar Kings in the (Click link for more info and facts about International League) International League.
		Tiant finished his rookie season with a 10-4 record, 105 strikeouts, and a 2.83 (A major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods) ERA in 19 games.
		Twisting and turning his body into unthinkable positions, Tiant would spend more time looking at (The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 2nd base) second base than he did the plate as he prepared to throw.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Lu/Luis_Tiant.htm (1307 words)

	Luis Tiant -- Latino Legends in Sports
		Luis won his first six decisions for the Twins in 1970 before suffering a fractured right scapula that forced him to miss most of the remainder of the season.
		Tiant's success in 1975 was made all the sweeter when he was reunited with his mother and father, who were allowed to visit from Cuba under a special visa.
		Luis Tiant currently reside in Boston and is married to Maria del Refugio Navarro and has three children; Luis Tiant Jr., Isabel and Daniel.
	www.latinosportslegends.com /Tiant_Luis-bio.htm (1025 words)

	Luis Tiant, Sr.
		Tiant first played in the United States in the early 1930s with various teams advertised as "Cuban," though many players on those teams were not from Cuba.
		Tiant was often called the "Cuban Carl Hubbell" for his fine left-handed pitching and awesome screwball.
		Tiant had one of his greatest seasons at age 40, with a perfect record in league games and leading his New York Cubans to the Negro National League pennant, then a victory in the Negro League World Series against the Cleveland Buckeyes.
	www.pitchblackbaseball.com /nlotmluistiant.html (416 words)

	Luis Tiant, Jr. \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Tiant's father, Luis Tiant, Sr., was one of Cuba's greatest pitchers; former All-Star Bobby Avila signed the younger Luis to his first contract, for the 1959 Mexican League season.
		Tiant was the Comeback Player of the Year in 1972 for a contending Boston Red Sox team.
		Tiant got a hit in each game after batting once all season, and his adventuresome trips from base to base (he scored each time) while bundled in a warm-up jacket provided comic relief in an otherwise tense series.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Tiant_Luis_Jr.stm (2400 words)

	Luis Tiant - RedSoxDiehard.com
		The littlest Louie is Tiant's 5-year-old grandson, Luis V. ''Family is everything,'' the elder Tiant said.
		A retired Luis Tiant II was not allowed to leave Cuba to see his son pitch until the 1975 World Series.
		Tiant and his players were guests at a Boston Celtics game, and the Fleet Center crowd rose and broke into chants of ''Louie, Louie, Louie'' when Tiant was shown on the scoreboard.
	www.redsoxdiehard.com /players/tiant.html (1218 words)

	luistiant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Though Luis Tiant was hired by the Red Sox this winter to serve, among other things, as a pitching coach in the minor league system, he will stick with the big camp indefinitely during the spring.
		Tiant, one of the most popular and successful pitchers in Red Sox history, has a lot he can share with the Boston pitchers of today.
		Luis and his son were very very nice and I had a great time chatting with them.
	ourredsoxx.homestead.com /luistiant.html (576 words)

	The Taunton Gazette - News and Sports - 11/22/2004 - Sox star stresses importance of education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant retired at the age of 42 in 1982 and fell short of being inducted into the Hall of Fame by just a few votes.
		Tiant, who lives in Southboro, has lived in Massachusetts for approximately 25 years.
		Tiant said he is more interested in people telling him that their child is doing well in school than the fact that they are going to be a star player.
	www.tauntongazette.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13413794&BRD=1711&PAG=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=6 (514 words)

	Interview with Filmmaker Patricia Alvarado about his documentary films "El Tiante: A Red Sox Story" and ...
		Tiant and his family were very open to help and gave Alvarado interviews and photos for the film.
		"I wanted to portray him [Tiant] as he was and that moment in history the way it was." As pleased as she is with the finished film, she admits that she was nervous to have Tiant see it for the first time at a screening at the Harvard Film Archive.
		She does say that both Kuki Delcarman and Luis Tiant were surprised when she approached them about filming their stories, but it was because she seemed "too young and not connected to baseball," she says.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/03november/alvarado.htm (1783 words)

	Boston Red Sox : History : Red Sox Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant won 122 games with a 3.36 ERA in nine years with the Red Sox that included three 20-win seasons.
		Tiant's last Red Sox start was a 5-0 two-hitter vs. Toronto on Oct. 1, 1978 at Fenway, paving the way for the one-game playoff vs. the Yankees the next day.
		On Dec. 12, 2001, Luis rejoined the Red Sox organization as the pitching coach for the Lowell Spinners (Short-A).
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/history/bos_history_redsoxhalloffame_more.jsp?content=tiant (206 words)

	1-800-BEISBOL - Los Cuatro Fantasticos de Cuba en Venezuela
		Luis Tiant, logró la triple corona dentro del equipo, al ganar 12 encuentros, ponchar a 142 y obtener una efectividad de 1.83.
		Ellos (Tiant, Seguí, Monteagudo y Peña), ganaron y dominaron la liga a su antojo, sin que sus rivales pusieran la más mínima resistencia.
		Tiant 23 20 12 6 157.1 117 32 142 44 1.83
	1800beisbol.com /baseball/Deportes/Beisbol_Cuba/Los_Cuatro_Fantasticos_de_Cuba_en_Venezuela (575 words)

	Hispanic Magazine.com - March 2002 - Forum
		Luis Tiant owned the city of Boston and their beloved Red Sox in the mid-1970s.
		Luis Tiant began his major league career with the Cleveland Indians in 1964.
		Tiant won 2 games in that Series, but could not bring that ever-elusive title to the city of Boston.
	www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2002/march/Forum (673 words)

	Luis Tiant Sr. \| BaseballLibrary.com
		A Negro League standout, Tiant was a master of changing speeds, a junkball-screwball pitcher with a herky-jerky motion and a superior pickoff move.
		He was also a fierce competitor; according to one of his beanball victims, the Philadelphia Stars' Ted Paige, "he gave no mercy to any batter." In October of 1935, Tiant's New York Cubans defeated the Babe Ruth All-Stars 6-1 and 15-3.
		In 1975, Cuban leader Fidel Castro allowed Tiant to go see his son, Luis, Jr., pitch for the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Tiant_Luis_Sr.stm (173 words)

	Boston Red Sox News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Luis Tiant -- the pride of Cuba -- gained so much popularity in his years with the Sox that he is still a revered figure around New England.
		However, Tiant never received such warmth during the 15 years (1988-2002) he was on the Baseball Writers Association of America's Hall of Fame ballot.
		Tiant split his 19-year career between the Indians (1964-69), Twins ('70), Red Sox ('71-78), Yankees ('79-80), Pirates ('81) and Angels ('82), going 229-172 with a 3.30 ERA.
	boston.redsox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/news/bos_news.jsp?ymd=20050228&content_id=952446&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp (738 words)

	Cooperstown Confidential: Regular Season Edition #6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Luis Tiant is probably best remembered for making bad hot dog commercials and smoking cigars, throwing with a corkscrew pitching motion, and emerging as the emotional leader of the Boston Red Sox’ pennant-winning staff of 1975.
		Achieving one of his first tastes of national stardom, Tiant was featured on the cover of The Sporting News, the renowned “Bible of Baseball.” Although the summer of ’68 became known as the “Year of the Pitcher,” Tiant’s numbers transcended the context of the era.
		According to Tiant, the doctor claimed that he had never seen such an injury experienced by a pitcher; in fact, the doctor had examined only a broken shoulder blade suffered by a javelin thrower during his years of dealing with athletes.
	www.all-baseball.com /cooperstown/archives/019323.html (3911 words)

	Baseball Digest: When the tribe's Luis Tiant threw four consecutive shutouts; Cleveland right-hander won 21 games and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant was at his best in the spring of 1968, when he threw four straight shutouts.
		Tiant began his spectacular shutout streak on April 28, 1968, throwing a two-hitter over the Senators in Washington for a 2-0 victory.
		Tiant was considered the Indians' fourth starter on a strong staff that included Sudden Sam McDowell, Sonny Siebert and Steve Hargan.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_7_61/ai_86826869 (1243 words)

	El Tiante still blowing smoke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant was here at Two Guys Smoke Shop on Route 28 in Salem, N.H. loving life, which means he was smoking cigars and talking baseball.
		Tiant was 17 when he coughed through his first cigar in Mexico City, less than a month after leaving his homeland to play baseball.
		Tiant says his favorite pitcher in baseball is Pedro Martinez, because "he could pitch in any era.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20010812/SP_003.htm (916 words)

	Red Sox Great Luis Tiant Slams America For Ambivalent Attitude Towards Elian's Freedom [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Luis Tiant said the letter was painful to read, but he could only imagine how excruciating it was to write.
		Tiant, one of the all-time great Red Sox pitchers and a man who belongs in the Hall of Fame, was sitting in his office at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he is in his third season as the head baseball coach.
		The elder Luis and Isabel went to Fenway to see their son, one of the great clutch players of his time, and the younger Luis finally introduced his wife and children to his parents.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39063a8f2911.htm (2866 words)

	Forever Red Sox -- Online Red Sox Information
		Luis Tiant, probably most famous for his pirouette pitching motion and his postgame cigars, was an outstanding moundsman for the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox during the 1960s and 1970s.
		In the minors Tiant pitched for Jacksonville of the International League, Charleston of the Eastern League, Burlington of the Carolina League, and Portland of the Pacific Coast League.
		Tiant now lives in Canton, Massachusetts, where he works for Northeastern University as part of Project Teamwork, a program sponsored by Reebok International Limited in which athletes speak to high school students to urge them to stay in school.
	www.webryder.com /redsox/players/tiant.html (920 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At 27 minutes, Patricia Alvarado’s documentary appreciation of former Sox pitcher Luis Tiant is too short to be more than a swift sketch of his life as an exile from Castro’s Cuba and a quick perusal of his baseball career.
		Tiant starred for the Cleveland Indians, and after he threw out his shoulder, his career seemed to be over, but upon being claimed by the Sox he reinvented himself, developing one of the most idiosyncratic deliveries imaginable.
		Doing things his off-speed way, Tiant became the Sox’s ace starter in the early 1970s, and he won two games in the 1975 World Series.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/film/documents/02671914.htm (758 words)

	Tiant has Boston on his mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tiant was in the Merrimack Valley last night with his team, Div.
		Luis Tiant was in Lowell last night as coach of Division III Savannah (Ga.) College, which played UMass Lowell.
		Tiant's parents finally made it to Boston in 1974 to live with their son.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20000506/SP_001.htm (741 words)

	Tuesday August 19
		From Baseball Library, “Tiant was a master of changing speeds, a junkball-screwball pitcher with a herky-jerky motion and a superior pickoff move.”
		Luis Tiant pitched for the 1970 Minnesota Twins.
		Tiant pitched both games and won both (6-1 and 15-3), and Babe Ruth just had one single.
	www.sethspeaks.net /081903.htm (1006 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Nothing beats the imaginative pitcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Juan Marichal signed with the New York Giants (soon to become the San Francisco Giants) in 1957, the organization's director of player development was Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell.
		In 1980, Luis Tiant enjoyed his last extended stint as a rotation starter in the major leagues (he also pitched briefly in 1981 and '82).
		Nomo was (and is) probably the closest thing to Tiant that we'd seen since Tiant.
	espn.go.com /mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1573100.html (1126 words)

	La Plaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the mound at Fenway Park, Luis Tiant, a fl Cuban exile, pitched his first game in the World Series.
		For the Red Sox, the last team to integrate, more than 50 years of shattered World Series hopes rested on the shoulders of "El Tiante." The biggest issues of the day — race and baseball — converged on the pitching mound of the city's fabled park.
		And for Tiant, who had worked his way up from Latin American baseball teams to the US major leagues, there was only one question — would his best be good enough?
	www.wgbh.org /pages/laplaza/index?feature_id=857985 (118 words)

	Tiantbio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Luis Tiant was born in Cuba, the land where his father, Luis Sr., had starred as a pitcher for several years.
		In 1969 Tiant slumped terribly losing 20 games while his ERA more than doubled.
		Little Looey won Game Four was well, and had a no-decision in Game Six the game that saw Carlton Fisk's dramatic game-winning homer in extra frames.
	ourredsoxx.homestead.com /Tiantbio.html (620 words)

	NetShrine Discussion Forum - Talkin' 70s baseball
		I remember Luis Tiant hocking hot dogs on TV - he would come on with that great big smile and say "eet's great to beee with a weeeeenerrrrrr!" That was after he joined the Yankees.
		Tiant was walking around the clubhouse wearing shiny new shoes and nothing else.
		After the game, Tiant's voice went booming through the clulbhouse - "I keel you!" - as he chased Yaz around waving his $150 shoes, trying to pry nails out of the soles.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/printthread.php?t=512 (1871 words)

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