Luis Tiant Biography
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- Born Nov. 23, 1940
Tiant compiled a 229β172 record with 2416 strikeouts, a 3.30 ERA, 187 complete games, and 49 shutouts in β3486Β 1β3 innings. He was an All-Star for three seasons and 20-game winner for four seasons. He was the American League (AL) ERA leader in 1968 and 1972. He also was the AL leader in strikeouts for 9-innings in 1967 and the AL leader in shutouts in 1966, 1968, and 1974.\n', '
Tiant was considered for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum via voting of the Baseball Writers\' Association of America from 1988 to 2002, and by era committees in 2011, 2014, and 2017, falling short of the required votes each time. He was inducted to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.\n', '
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\'s New York Cubans 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 until he starred for the Havana team and was picked up for the Cuban Juvenile League All-Star team in 1957.\n', '
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