Old Red Sox Ace Still Smokin'

A pitcher who won 20 games or more four times, had a career earned-run-average of 3.30 and won 229 games in his career would probably command a salary of $10 million or more a year.
Luis Tiant is, instead, heading up El Tiante, Inc., which sells the El Tiante 23 Series cigar line made in Nicaragua at the Tabacalera Tambor. He also works as a pitching instructor in the Red Sox minor-league organization.But you can see him in cigar stores throughout the Northeast, where the El Tiante is sold. A recent appearance at the Owl Shop in Worcester, Massachusetts, was noted in the local Telegram & Gazette:“El Tiante has always been a cigar smoker,” wrote reporter Clive McFarlane. “Some of his fans, forgetting that memory has a way of fading with time, will insist that a Havana cigar was either sticking out of his mouth, or lying somewhere on the mound, when he was a pitcher in the Major Leagues. It is not surprising then, that he would get into the cigar business.”And it’s working for Tiant, who many think should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. But he’s not, but he told the reporter that he’s making more today than he did as a baseball player. And, “This game and this country have been good to me. Everywhere I go, people make me feel good, because they respect what I have done. You can’t buy that with all the money in the world.”

Courtesy: CigarCyclopedia.com