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 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 (Ted Danson) 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