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Work From Home Isnt Just for Elites. Its the Revolution Rural America Needs
Newsweek By Skylar Baker-Jordan January 12, 2022
One of the major fault lines of the pandemic has been the one dividing people who can work from home from those who can't. The pandemic has put a spotlight on remote white-collar employees, often pitting them against essential workers who do not have the luxury of working from home. "When you talk about closing down our city, you're talking about putting low-wage workers out of a job," tweeted New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
But this framing is incomplete. Because working from home has represented a real revolution for rural America and those like me who make our homes here. Remote working allows small towns and rural communities to finally compete with big cities and suburbs. And it presents an exciting new opportunity to renew our small towns, opening the doors to a rural renaissance in the 21st century.
For decades, scholars and policymakers have been wringing their hands over rural brain drain. In my home state of Kentucky, which ranks number one for brain drain, there is a shocking 28 percent gap between highly educated people leaving the state compared to those coming in. Across the Big Sandy River, rugged and isolated West Virginia has seen a consistent population decline since 1950. And those getting out are those who can.
This has real world consequences. Educated taxpayers leave the state, taking with them tax dollars which are needed to fund everything from roads to local schools. It's no wonder, then, that rural areas struggle not only with smaller tax bases but also fewer federal dollars subsidizing them than their urban counterparts, because of their smaller populations. This in turn limits the quality of education and opportunities rural students have compared to their urban peers.
Remote work, however, offers a chance to level this playing field. As the cost of living in cities across America continues to skyrocket, the ability to work from home could transform into an exodus of educated professionals from their urban bubbles into the hinterlands.
And it's this that's missing from the debate about remote work: the fact that it has the potential to transform rural America. It can stem our brain drain and bring in much-needed tax revenue in places which have declined under globalization. It can also bring in new jobs, allowing the rural workforce to tap into the globalized, digital economy. Remote work has the potential to transform the rural economy, finally bringing autonomy and stability to communities which have experienced massive upheaval over the past half-century or more.
Towns like Bemidji, Minnesota are already realizing this, instituting programs to attract these remote workers to their communities. In Western Kentucky, Paducah even offered cash incentives for professionals to relocate to the town, understanding the value they bring in the form of tax revenue, capital (both financial and social), and expertise.
And the ability to work from home means that the kids growing up in rural America today may not have to face the same dilemma generations of rural Americans faced over the 20th and early 21st century: stay home or leave for a better life. The better life can come to them without them ever having to leave their communities.
No system is perfect, and working remotely poses new challenges to workers, employers, and the economy. But there is no denying it is an exciting opportunity for rural America, one that could finally help towns like mine left behind by the globalized economy recover. Finally, rural America can enjoy the fruits of the modern economy and share in the bounty of America.
In 2017, I covered the UK General Election as a contributing editor at the GayUK Magazine. I would wake up every morning at 2:00 AM, make a pot of coffee, and get to work interviewing members of parliament and candidates. Why so early? Because I wasn't based in London like the rest of the team. I was in Chicago.
Today I'm writing this article from my home in East Tennessee. I relocated to the rural south in 2018 to be closer to family. Without the ability to work remotely, I would not have been able to do this.
The debate about working from home needs to widen its scope. The coastal myopia is hiding one of the biggest benefits. It's not about stop the spread of COVID anymore, but about encouraging the spread of talented Americans—back to rural America.


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An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off Friday from a launch pad in French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron
A European Ariane 5 rocket launched from French Guiana Friday, succeeding on its first flight in nearly a year to deploy a pair of geostationary communications satellites for commercial operators in Brazil and France.
The launch was a key test of the Ariane 5 rocket ahead of a flight later this year to send the James Webb Space Telescope toward its observation post nearly a million miles from Earth. The European Space Agency is providing the launch for JWST, a joint program between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency with a cost of more than $10 billion.
Engineers introduced modifications to the Ariane 5's payload fairing, or nose cone, to reduce vibrations imparted on the satellites during separation of the shroud, which protects payloads during the first few minutes of flight through the atmosphere.
Ground teams will analyze data from the rocket to make sure the changes reduced the vibrations. Another Ariane 5 launch is scheduled for late September, then JWST will be next in line for a liftoff in November or December.
The Ariane 5 is one of the most powerful rockets in the world. Friday's mission marked the 110th flight of an Ariane 5 rocket since 1996, but it was the first Ariane 5 launch since last August, an unusually long gap between missions to allow engineers to resolve the fairing vibration concern before the launch of JWST.
Technicians at a Northrop Grumman facility in Southern California are readying the observatory — the largest space telescope ever flown — for shipment by boat to the Guiana Space Center.
But first, the Ariane 5 team had to successfully launch two commercial communications satellites Friday.
Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA's science mission directorate, attended the launch Friday in French Guiana. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in an interview Thursday that the agency sent Zurbuchen to the Guiana Space Center to check on preparations for the JWST launch.
"We sent Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen down to French Guiana because it seems the only hold up that we would see with James Webb would be whether or not these two Arianes that fly before JWST, if they get off safely and on time," Nelson said. "And we wanted Dr. Z t to go down there and check all of that out, so he'll report to us on what he sees."
The Ariane 5 rocket, standing nearly 180 feet (55 meters) tall, took off from the European-run spaceport in South America at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT; 6 p.m. French Guiana time) with Embratel's Star One D2 spacecraft and the Eutelsat Quantum satellite.
A hydrogen-fueled Vulcain 2 main engine and two solid rocket boosters propelled the launcher off the pad. The Ariane 5's guidance computer put the rocket on a path east from French Guiana, and the rocket shed its spent booster casings nearly two-and-a-half minutes into the mission.
About a minute later, ground controllers confirmed separation of the Ariane 5's payload fairing.
The Star One D2 communications satellite undergoes testing at Maxar's spacecraft manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. Credit: Maxar
The core stage engine burned for almost nine minutes, then jettisoned to fall into the Atlantic Ocean near Africa. A cryogenic upper stage ignited to finish the job of placing the Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum satellites into orbit.
Arianespace, the French launch services company, confirmed a good orbital injection and separation of both satellites less than 40 minutes after liftoff.
Star One D2 is a multipurpose communications satellite covering Latin America for Embratel of Brazil. Built by Maxar in Palo Alto, California, the spacecraft rode in the upper position of the dual-satellite stack inside the Ariane 5's payload fairing.
Fully fueled, the satellite weighed 13,646 pounds (6,190 kilograms) at launch, according to Arianespace. The spacecraft carries transponders operating in Ku-, Ka-, C-, and X-band frequencies, allowing it to serve multiple missions from its perch in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.
Embratel says the new satellite, designed for a 15-year lifetime, will allow it to expand broadband coverage to new regions in Central and South America, support television broadcast programming, and provide cell phone backhaul capacity. The satellite's X-band payload will be used by the Brazilian military.
Maxar said in statement after the launch Friday that the Star One D2 satellite was performing as expected after separation from the Ariane 5 rocket. The spacecraft deployed its solar arrays and began communicating with mission control through ground stations.
Star One D2 will execute several thruster firings over the next few weeks to maneuver out of the elongated transfer orbit the Ariane 5 rocket placed it in. The satellite will target a circular geostationary orbit, where its speed will match the rate of Earth's rotation, and enter service at 70 degrees west latitude.
"Maxar is proud of our partnership on geostationary satellites with Embratel over the years," said Chris Johnson, Maxar's senior vice president of space programs delivery. 'Our team members completed building Star One D2 during the global pandemic, which added in new and unusual working conditions to keep everyone safe. They persevered and delivered the satellite, and we're now focused on its on-orbit commissioning activities."
The Eutelsat Quantum spacecraft, built by Airbus in France, rode to orbit in the lower position inside the Ariane 5's payload shroud.
Developed in a public-private partnership between ESA, Airbus, and Eutelsat, the spacecraft will debut a new software-based design that will allow the satellite to be completely reprogrammed in orbit.
The innovation is a first for a European satellite, and will give Eutelsat the flexibility to repurpose the Quantum spacecraft to respond to changing market demands over its 15-year design life.
The Eutelsat Quantum spacecraft is mounted on top of its Ariane 5 launcher. Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut
Like Star One D2, he 7,630-pound (3,461-kilogram) Eutelsat Quantum spacecraft will head into geostationary orbit after separation from the Ariane 5 rocket's upper stage. Its service location will be at 48 degrees east longitude.
The satellite will operate in Ku-band with eight independent reconfigurable beams, allowing Eutelsat to adjust the spacecraft's throughput and coverage zones to meet ever-changing business requirements.
"Its beams can be redirected to move in almost real time to provide information to passengers on board moving ships or planes," ESA said in a press release. "The beams also can be easily adjusted to deliver more data when demand surges. The satellite can detect and characterize any rogue emissions, enabling it to respond dynamically to accidental interference or intentional jamming."
Pascal Homsy, Eutelsat's chief technical officer, said ground teams established contact with Eutelsat Quantum after launch Friday night.
"Eutelsat Quantum is, indeed, a game changer," Homsy said after launch. "It's a satellite of a new time, a flexible satellite which will be able to be controlled in orbit from the ground through software. That is a great advantage for our clients, so coverage and power, spectrum and capacity are going to be reconfigurable any time.'


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NATO will conduct a military drill in the Black Sea, close to Crimea, beginning on Monday. Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014.
Turkey's warships will take part in NATO's drill alongside ships from the U.S., Germany, Italy, Canada and Romania. Admiral Brad Williamson from the U.S. Navy will command the drill.
Speaking at the missile cruiser USS Vicksburg, which is currently anchored at Bulgaria's Varna port, Williamson said that the drill was planned last year.
Bulgaria has announced that warships will take part in some other drills until the end of the year. However, American ships will leave the Black Sea after 21 days due to limitations in the Montreux Convention.
Russia has also started a land exercise, which will run until April 10, with 2,000 troops taking part.
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Martha Farrell Foundation is looking for summer interns who can support its programs related to gender-based violence (GBV) Menstrual Health Management (MHM) and prevention of sexual harassment at workplace (PSHW). This Summer Internship Program is exclusively designed for schools students from grades 9th to 12th. Each intern will receive a unique opportunity to work face to face with the communities and design their own campaigns for MHM and PSHW.
- At the end of the internship, each intern will be expected to deliver an on-ground or social media campaign, which will be based on their learning from the communities and will support in generating awareness around the issues of GBV, MHM and PSHW.
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For many homeowners association members, the summer months are a time to hit the hammock and sip on a cold beverage. Winter is a distant memory, spring planting is done, and fall clean-up is still a few months off. Aside from concerns about whether homeowners are mowing their lawns on a regular schedule and whether enough rain will fall to keep gardens healthy, there arent too many major issues. And yet . . .
For many HOA members, joining the board is appealing because it enables them to have a vested interest in seeing their neighborhood look the best it possibly can. If youre that person, and actively engaging in HOA activities gives you a profound joy.
Survey the Home Improvement Efforts — Summer is a good time to complete major home renovations. In most communities, permits are necessary before any project can begin. Take a look around your neighborhood and see if any major projects are underway. You want to make sure any construction projects meet covenants and are properly permitted.
Road Check — How are the streets in your neighborhood? Potholes and large cracks usually occur in the winter, and are filled in during spring. But extreme shifts in temperature or poor product can cause unseasonable issues. Using the same logic, take a look at driveways. If any homes have huge humps in the concrete or minor sinkholes, you may want to initiate a conversation about the reasons for the problems.
Dead Tree Alert — Most trees should be in full bloom during summer, so if you notice some that look like they were transplanted from late January, its a good sign they may be dead. Tree removal is expensive, but you dont want a dead tree in one persons yard to get knocked over during a storm — right onto the roof a neighbors house. As a HOA member, you can look for ways to help residents pool resources to remove several trees at once.
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Students study the family from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perspectives. Students compare nuclear family structures and extended family structures. Students explore the concept of socialization and its impact on self and family. Students examine personal value systems, interpersonal relationships, gender-role relationships, marriage, and family structures.
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Baker, Marie. Theories, methods and concerns of family sociology. (Current Edition). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Reproduced by Open Learning Agency with permission from McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
Peters, John. Cultural variations: Past and present. (Current Edition). Toronto, Ontario: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Reproduced by Open Learning Agency with permission from McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
Zimmerman, S.L. (1995). Understanding family policy: Theories and applications. (Current Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Stage.
Driben, P. 1990. A death in the family: The strategic importance of women in contemporary northern Ojibwa society. Native Studies Review, 6 (1), 83-110.


International Women's Day, celebrated this week for the 106th year, marks continued progress for women across the world, but that progress has been reversed in countries where Islamic fundamentalism has taken hold. And nowhere is women's freedom more under official assault than in Iran.
Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women in Iran had significant personal freedom and protection under the law. One of the first changes the Ayatollah Khomeini made after taking power was to revoke the 1967 Family Protection Law, which governed marriage, divorce and family custody.
Today, women have less than second-class status in Iran. Their husbands may divorce them at will and take as many as four concurrent wives, and divorced women have no custody rights to their own children once the child reaches age 2. Women are denied the right to study what they choose and are forbidden from entering certain professions and from studying abroad unless accompanied by their husbands. Their testimony in court is devalued: Two women must testify to carry the same weight as one man.
The court system is an arm of fundamentalist Islam. Female victims of crime receive less justice than male victims. Punishment for harming or even killing a woman is less harsh than if the victim is a man. What we in the West might consider moral transgressions, such as adultery, incur the severest criminal penalties, including the stoning to death of female adulterers. Even minor transgressions, such as failing to wear the hijab, can result in beatings and imprisonment.
Last week in Paris, however, I joined a group of prominent women gathered to draw attention to the plight of women in Iran and under other Islamic extremist governments. The conference theme, "Women Leading the Fight Against Islamic Fundamentalism," drew speakers including former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, former president of the German Bundestag Rita Sussmuth, South African activist Nontombi Naomi Tutu, and Mariane Pearl, journalist and widow of reporter Daniel Pearl, whose videotaped execution by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed became a symbol of the barbarity of al-Qaida.
Maryam Rajavi, the conference organizer and president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the outrageous misogyny that the mullahs inflict on Iran: an acid attack against a woman and her daughter in the streets of Tehran, forced marriages for girls under 15, and new laws (unopposed by the so-called moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani) that allow men to marry their adopted daughters at age 13.


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This was Dr. Washington's eighth trip to Africa with the International Organization for Women and Development (IOWD). Each February, she joins an IOWD-led surgical mission to perform fistula repair in Rwanda. A fistula is an abnormal connection between two organs of the body or an organ and the skin. Most of the patients she treats on these missions are women who developed obstetric fistulas as a consequence of prolonged labor or due to complications at the time of delivery. They come from remote areas where professional medical treatment options are lacking. "The problem of fistula is rare in the West due to advances in obstetrical care and labor management," Dr. Washington explains. "Even in Rwanda, fistula disproportionately impacts the poorest and most marginalized women." It is worth noting that every procedure performed by IOWD is free of charge to the patient.
She goes back every year because the work is not only tremendously rewarding, but a dire need. In most cases, the women who IOWD cares for would otherwise have no access to these life-changing procedures. Recognizing the value of these medical missions, the Rwandan Ministry of Health sends out a series of radio broadcasts prior to the trip, alerting women throughout the country that IOWD volunteer surgeons are on their way. Many women travel a great distance in the hopes of having surgery performed; they see it as their only chance to live a normal life again.
"Many have suffered for a long time," says Dr. Washington. "Many have been ostracized by their communities, divorced by their husbands, suffered from infertility (in a society that values women according to their ability to reproduce), and yet they remain hopeful, joyful, and immensely grateful."
Dr. Washington and the IOWD fistula team return each year. Their ten-day itinerary at Kibagabaga District Hospital is very busy: it starts with two days of obtaining medical histories and performing exams, followed by eight full days of back-to-back operations. On this most recent trip, they performed 42 fistula surgeries.
Dr. Washington travels and works with the same group of medical professionals on each mission, and the team has formed a tight bond over the years. "It is a privilege to operate with this group of talented surgeons on some of the most challenging cases many of us see," she explains. "I really love working with and learning from them."
The team also works collaboratively with medical professionals in Rwanda, providing them with first-hand education in treating fistula. Local medical students and residents assist Dr. Washington's team in the operating rooms, gleaning as much as they can from the procedures with the hope of eventually becoming more independent in their care of these conditions. Naturally, as an MCG Physician Editor, she incorporates evidence-based practices (surgical principles, procedural pauses, antibiotic prophylaxis, etc.) into her medical work and education for Rwandan trainees.
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A Brief History of The Blue Bus Service of Tailby & George Ltd
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Anyone who has moved to Willington since the 1970s may be forgiven for having never heard of The Blue Bus Service. Those who lived in the Derby area in the 1980s may remember the name being used on the City Transport coaches, but not know the connection with Willington. However, The Blue Bus was integral to daily life in Willington for much of the middle part of the 20th Century.
During the pioneering days of rural motor omnibus services in the 1920's a fledgling service began between Burton and Derby. The route passed through Newton Solney, Repton, Willington and Findern and saw fierce competition with the already established Trent Motor Traction service. The vehicles in use then appear somewhat primitive to the modern eye. Reputedly, on at least one occasion, the combination of poor weather and the climb up the valley side between Burton & Newton Solney required the passengers to get out and push. The regular driver, a chap named Jack Dean was apparently quite a character - beginning a tradition of friendliness with which the Blue Bus was to remain synonymous.
Daimler 'CD650' SRB425 squeezes under the railway bridge on Repton Road in 1973 during the "Farewell to the Blue Bus" tour - picture courtesy of David Stanier
This early start gradually grew, via a series of partnerships; Jack Dean and Arthur Allen then Jack Dean and Percy Jowett Tailby followed by Jack Dean, Percy Tailby & Harold George and finally, in 1927, Tailby & George. The service these men provided had become known as The Blue Bus Service and in about 1930, the company moved their operation to premises on Repton Road at Willington.
The company had expanded their operation to include a second route between Derby and Burton, this time via Etwall, Egginton and Stretton. On 9th October 1939, the company became Tailby & George Ltd. and entered a period of steady, reliable and, above all, committed service, continuing under the branding of Blue Bus Services.
Passenger numbers were such that during the Second World War, the company began operating double-deck vehicles – requiring special low height vehicles due to the 13' 6" headroom of the railway bridge in Willington. Despite the odd scrape (and one quite heavy thump on the Twyford Road railway bridge in 1968) the double-deckers were very successful.
The seriousness with which the Blue Bus company regarded its duty to its passengers was not lost on the local population and the company was a much loved part of Willington village life. Staff were urged to bear in mind they were providing a service and without the customers there would be no job. Politeness was the watch-word with passengers each receiving an individual "thank you" as they alighted.
The company outgrew the original garage which was on the east side of Repton Road and new premises were built on the opposite side of the road, opening in June 1956. The low stone wall on either side of the entrance to this garage can still be seen just on the village side of Saxon Grove.
Throughout much of their history, the company were loyal to Daimler as suppliers of vehicles, which was rewarded by Tailby & George being heavily involved in the trial of a prototype vehicle during the 1960's and receiving two of the first vehicles off the resultant production line.
Since the untimely deaths of their spouses in 1955 & 1958 respectively, the company had been run by Mr. Tailby & Mrs. George. Percy Tailby died in 1956 leaving Katherine George as sole proprietor until her death in 1965. Tailby & George Ltd. then passed to Douglas & Bunty Marshall, the latter being the daughter of the Tailbys.
By the 1970's public transport was in a state of serious decline. The railways had been decimated by Beeching and the majority of the bus industry was either nationalised (i.e. Trent) or in the hands of the local council, as in Derby and Burton. Small independent companies like Tailby & George faced fierce competition from the bigger companies. On 1st December 1973, the then proprietors of the company, Mr. & Mrs Marshall made the decision to retire. After much speculation the operation of the Blue Bus Service passed from Tailby & George Ltd to the Derby Corporation. The transaction cost Derby Corporation £212,039, for which they gained a fleet of 23 vehicles and a tremendous amount of "Goodwill".
The passing was mourned by locals and bus enthusiasts alike. Careful and skilled maintenance of the fleet had meant that as well as a steady programme of new vehicles, older examples were still available for duty, leading to a certain nostalgic charm whilst maintaining a more than functional day-to-day service.
Transition to Derby Corporation (Derby Borough Transport from 1974) was slow but steady. A gradual integration of the fleet, livery and, notably, working practices took place such that by early 1976 the future of Willington as a bus depot was questionable. At best the garage was likely to retain the ever growing private hire business with the Burton – Derby service buses moving completely to Derby. Thus the writing was already on the wall for Blue Bus Services to become Derby Borough Transport's private hire brand when fate leant a helping hand.
The last vehicle into the garage had been parked up and the garage locked at 2305hrs on the night of Monday, 5th January 1976. For many it had been the first day back at work after the long new year holiday and, as was normal practice, the entire fleet had been fuelled on returning to the garage ready for the next day's work. In all 19 buses and a van were in the garage when, at 2325hrs smoke was reported issuing from the building. By the time the fire service arrived the entire garage area was engulfed and the fleet was wiped out.
The premises were destroyed along with a number of unique and historic vehicles as well as the spirit of Blue Bus Services. Derby Borough Transport hastily acquired replacement coaches to maintain its services and private hire commitments but all operations were now centred on Ascot Drive garage in Derby. Two former Blue Buses which were at Ascot Drive awaiting disposal were reinstated after the fire, but were subsequently scrapped when the unexpected need for them was ended by replacement vehicles.
Daimler 702PRA turns out of the Repton road garage (note the low wall which still exists) - photograph courtesy of David Stanier
The Blue Bus garage was pulled down and the site lay empty for a number of years. In the 1990's Saxon Grove and the appropriately named Tailby Drive were built on the site. Even the name Blue Bus Services has vanished from commercial use. Derby Borough Transport became Derby City Transport and was subsequently privatised. Quaint names with local historical significance don't fit into the corporate world of 21st Century transport.
A number of vehicles from the Blue Bus fleet did survive, having been preserved before the 1976 fire. Now that their connection with Willington has been severed, who knows if they'll ever visit the village again?
In writing this page, extensive use has been made of "Blue Bus Services" by David Stanier, published in 1984 (second edition) by J.M.Pearson & Sons (Publishers) Ltd - ISBN 0 907864 19. Although long out of print, copies periodically appear in second hand book shops and local libraries should hold a copy. In the hope that this short article has whetted your interest, I strongly urge seeking a copy out. Mr. Stanier's assistance in checking through my text and correcting errors is greatly appreciated. The photographs are from his book and are used with his permission, for which I am of course also very grateful.
Since the first 'publication' of this text on the Willington Web Site, Mrs. Bunty Marshall, who still lived in the area at that time, was kind enough to assist me with additional information. I am greatly indebted to her for that and for allowing me to view her wonderful album of Blue Bus photographs. Beyond the scope of this article, but mention ought to be made in passing that her late husband, Mr. Douglas Marshall was a fighter pilot in World War II - and the tales of his wartime exploits are as fascinating as one would expect. Thank you Mrs. Marshall.
First published September 2001
Updated: 11AUG2007 & 07SEP2015
Dave Harris


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Q: Getting a list of tests run with Jest (without running suites)
Is it possible to get a list of suites/specs without running the actual tests w/ Jest.
For example, I have a test that looks like this:
describe('when blah blah blah', function () {
  it('returns foobar', function () { /* test code */ })
})

Ideally, I'd like to be able to just get a list of describe/it statements to quickly look at scenarios covered.
# stdout
when blah blah blah
  returns foobar

I think this is possible with rspec, using a dry-run flag. Is there any such option with Jest?
I took a look at the Jest CLI documentation and have done an issue search at the project's Github page, but could not find anything.

A: Although question doesn't ask about how to get count of the all tests. I wanted to get this information. One hacky way to do this would be to use testNamePattern switch with pattern which doesn't match any tests.
This will skip and print the skipped tests which is what you want.
jest ./src --testNamePattern=<pattern-which-doesnt-match-any-tests>

Output of this looks like following
$ jest ./src --testNamePattern=adafafsafa

Test Suites: 409 skipped, 0 of 409 total
Tests:       2540 skipped, 2540 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        74.082 s
Ran all test suites matching /.\/src/i with tests matching "adafafsafa".
✨  Done in 75.84s.

A: The switch --listTests returns a JSON array of the test files and then exits (instead of running the tests).
It might not be exactly what you're looking for though since it doesn't parse the
describe/it functions, nor is the output very pretty.
https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/en/cli.html#listtests

A: You can use terminal and regex. For example: egrep '^\s*(describe|it)\(' PATH_TO_FILE.
What it means:

*

*^ asserts position at start of a line,

*\s* matches any whitespace character between zero and unlimited times,

*(describe|it) matches the word "describe" or "it" literally,

*\( matches the character "(" one time.

In my case, it yields all lines with test signatures.


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Luis E. Tiant
November 25, 2014 /in BioProject - Person Negro Leaguers, Parent-Child Cuba Cuban Baseball Legends /by admin
Rory Costello
Luis Eleuterio Tiant (1906-1976) was one of the finest pitchers that Cuba has ever produced. So was his son, Luis Clemente Tiant, who won 229 games in the major leagues from 1964 through 1982 – more than any of his countrymen. When asked about his namesake, Luis C. said in 1974, "He was a better pitcher than I am."1 The following year, the father said, "My son is better than I am."2
It wasn't just mutual modesty, though – in October 1975, Luis C. emphasized, "He was better than me. Everybody in Cuba knows that."3 That statement came just before Luis C.'s most notable performances, his brilliant efforts in the 1975 World Series. The color barrier denied Luis E. the opportunity to play in the majors. Yet even after 1975, top-level judges of talent in Cuba – such as Agustín "Tinti" Molina, the man who spotted Luis E. – favored the father.4
Leaving this debate aside, though, there's no question that Luis E. Tiant was a first-rate pitcher. Hall of Famer Monte Irvin said that the elder Tiant would have been a "great, great star" in the majors.5 Instead, Luis E. played in Cuba, the Negro Leagues, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, as well as barnstorming teams, from 1926 through 1948.
The two pitchers differed in some basic ways. The father was a lefty; the son was a righty. The father was small for a pitcher at 5-feet-10 and 150 pounds – along with the obvious "Lefty," one of his nicknames was "Sir Skinny." The son grew to six feet even and was built more thickly (his big-league baseball cards mostly listed him at 190 pounds). But they were mirror images in terms of their herky-jerky, corkscrew pitching motion. This deceptive style also gave both men the benefit of an excellent pickoff move.6 Cuban baseball historian Roberto González Echevarría described how the elder Tiant "was fond, for example, of walking lightning-fast Cool Papa Bell on purpose, just to put on a show trying to keep him from stealing."7
The ESPN Pro Baseball Encyclopedia summed up Luis E.'s repertoire well. "The elder Tiant had control of three power pitches (fastball, curve, slider), but his best pitch was a screwball. He worked with a junkballer's attitude and his mix of skills and approach served him well, especially in big games."8 The same, minus the screwball, was true of Luis C.
"The old man could hit and he could wet up those pitches," said Al Smith. Smith faced Luis E. in 1947 as a teenaged member of a Negro League opponent, the Cleveland Buckeyes. In 1964, his last season in the majors, Smith was a teammate of the rookie Luis C. with the Cleveland Indians.9
Luis E. also had a hard edge – he could be a headhunter at times. Negro Leaguer Ted Page liked to tell the story of how he once got a hit off a Tiant curveball in his first at-bat. The next time up, Tiant hit Page in the head and knocked him out. When Page came to, he heard Tiant saying, "You no hit that one too well." Decades later, Page still had a bald spot from the beaning.10
Luis Eleuterio Tiant Bravo was born on August 27, 1906 in La Habana (Havana), the capital of Cuba. His father, a policeman, was also named Luis Tiant. Five generations of Tiant men have now carried this given name, extending through Luis Clemente Tiant's son and grandson. His mother, Señora Bravo, was a housewife.11 Luis E. was the eldest of nine children. He had three brothers (René, Juan, and Hilario) and five sisters (Conga, Chicki, Cristina, Adelaïda, and Quilla).12
Luis C. Tiant never knew much about his father's youth and how he came to baseball. One may imagine, though, that given the sport's longstanding high popularity in Cuba, Luis E. grew up playing in the placeres, or sandlots. Luis C. did know, however, that his uncle Hilario was also a very good player – but Hilario did not want to sign with a team and remained a carpenter instead.13
Available sources indicate that Luis E. Tiant's professional career began in 1926. According to Who's Who in Cuban Baseball by Jorge Figueredo, he pitched in six games for a club billed as "Cuba". Figueredo's compilation shows that Tiant pitched only on occasion in the main Cuban league from 1926 through 1930 – 11 games in all, with none in either the winters of 1927-28 or 1929-30 (though by some accounts, he was a member of the 1929-30 league champions, Cienfuegos). Information on this period is scarce, however, and Luis C. could not complement it.
Luis E. Tiant first played in the U.S. in 1928, with a barnstorming team called the Havana Red Sox. Author Alan Pollock provided background on this team and Tiant's time with them. Pollock's father was Syd Pollock, a notable impresario of black baseball. Syd booked and promoted the Havana Red Sox for many years; he then purchased the franchise after the 1928 season. "In 1931, the Havana Red Sox became the Cuban House of David, which became the 1932 Cuban Stars."14 Newspaper accounts from the Afro-American in 1931 and 1932 support Alan Pollock's timeline. In April 1932, that paper described Tiant as "ace of [the] Cubans' hurling staff."15 Another article, from July 1932, was written by Syd Pollock himself and detailed how tough the business of baseball was amid the Great Depression.16
Cuba's economy and baseball also suffered in the early '30s. Political turmoil was another factor, as Roberto González Echevarría noted. The 1933-34 season was not held, and Tiant did not pitch at home in either 1932-33 or 1934-35. He lost some prime seasons.17
Nonetheless, he made his mark. "When Dad spoke of the best pitchers he ever saw, he ranked Lefty Tiant at the top," Alan Pollock wrote. "My brother Don was there the day Lefty Tiant gave Mom the beautiful silver crucifix on a silver chain she kept until she died. As star of Dad's Cuban teams, he was billed as Lefty Grove Tiant, and the irony of that billing echoes in words my brother Don once wrote me: "Lefty [Tiant] was the greatest pitcher I ever saw, better than Lefty Grove or Lefty Gomez." Pollock continued, "Tiant played for Dad until Alejandro Pómpez stole him in 1935 for the New York Cubans." 18
Alex Pómpez, the Cuban-American entrepreneur who later entered the Baseball Hall of Fame, brought his New York Cubans franchise into the Negro National League in 1935. That year, Pómpez assembled a powerful team, led by player-manager Martín Dihigo. Tiant's skill was widely recognized; he got more votes than any other pitcher in the selection of squads for the East-West All-Star Game.19 In that game, at Chicago's Comiskey Park on August 11, Tiant allowed three runs in two innings of relief. The West later won, 11-8, on a game-ending three-run homer in the 11th inning by Mule Suttles.20
The Cubans won the second-half pennant in 1935 and faced the Pittsburgh Crawfords for the league championship. The series went to seven games, and Tiant got the call to start the decisive match. He and the Cubans were leading 7-5 after seven innings, but in the eighth, "Sir Skinny" tired, allowing home runs to Josh Gibson and Oscar Charleston. After Sam Bankhead reached base, Cool Papa Bell singled him in with the decisive run. As Negro League historian Larry Lester wrote, "This year's edition of the Pittsburgh Crawfords has been called by many baseball historians the greatest Negro League team ever and has often been compared to the 1927 Yankees. Regardless, they struggled to beat baseball's all-star contingent of mostly Latin Americans."21
Shortly afterward, on September 29, the Cubans played the Babe Ruth All-Stars in a doubleheader at their home park, Dyckman Oval in upper Manhattan. The 40-year-old Bambino (whose big-league career had ended that May) reached Tiant for a double in the first inning of the opener. "But that was it!" said Larry Lester. "Tiant shut down the Babe Ruth All-Stars on four hits, as the Cubans won, 6-1."22
After the 1935-36 winter season ended in Cuba, Tiant got to face major-league competition. As was often the case in those days, big-league clubs played exhibition games in Cuba during spring training. In March 1936, the St. Louis Cardinals visited for a four-game series against the Havana All-Stars. On March 5, Tiant started the first game of the set, before a crowd of 14,000 that included the President of Cuba, José A. Barnet. The All-Stars won, 13-8. Tiant took a 6-1 lead into the eighth inning, but the Cardinals erupted for seven runs, knocking him out. The Cuban squad then responded with seven scores of their own in the bottom of the eighth.23
The New York Cubans did not operate during the 1937 or 1938 seasons. Special prosecutor Thomas Dewey had Alex Pómpez in his sights for involvement with the numbers racket in New York, and Pómpez hid out in Mexico for a portion of this time. His players, Tiant among them, looked mainly to Latin America for employment. During 1937, opportunity arose in the Dominican Republic.
As has often been chronicled, 1937 was a remarkable year in Dominican baseball. The season was dedicated to the re-election of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and Ciudad Trujillo assembled a powerhouse team, luring the best Negro Leaguers of the day to come down. The league's other teams competed, at least to a degree. Águilas Cibaeñas of Santiago signed Tiant plus two of his countrymen, Dihigo and Santos Amaro. Tiant posted a 1-3 record.24
Santos Amaro's son, Rubén Amaro, also went on to play major-league baseball. In 2014, Rubén Amaro said of Tiant, "I do remember him as a pitcher even though I was very young [Amaro was born in 1936, so his memories date from the 1940s]. He was good friends with Dad. He always dressed in a suit with a hat on. Skinny, big nose, lots of deception in his windup."25
Dominican pro baseball collapsed after the 1937 season, not to reappear until 1951. From 1938 through 1942, the available historical record for Tiant is very patchy. Baseball-reference.com shows no action for him in the Negro Leagues in 1938 or 1942, just nine games for the New York Cubans in 1939, and a mere one in 1940. One possibility, though unsupported at present, is that Tiant went to Venezuela in 1938 (as did various other black ballplayers, including Santos Amaro).
Tiant did, however, play outside the Negro Leagues too. For example, in May 1939, the Brooklyn Eagle noted that the "clever southpaw" had defeated the semi-pro Brooklyn Bushwicks. That article also described Tiant as a former member of the Cubans; instead, he was listed as playing for the Cuban Stars in the Metropolitan Baseball Association.26 The following month, though, the Pittsburgh Courier described "the weird slants of Lefty Tiant" in a Negro National League game between the New York Cubans and Baltimore Elite Giants at Yankee Stadium.27
Though the records may well be incomplete, it's possible that Tiant might also have missed some time with arm problems. Another conjecture is that he may have been at home in Cuba for family reasons. On November 23, 1940, Luis and his wife, Isabel Rovina Vega, welcomed the birth of their only child, Luis Clemente. (Records of their wedding date have never surfaced, and Luis C. Tiant did not know it.)
The new father was a member of the Cuban league champion, Havana, in the 1940-41 season. The club was managed by Miguel Ángel "Mike" González. Tiant then played in Mexico in the summer of 1941. He pitched 82 innings in 16 games for Veracruz Águila, posting a record of 2-5 with a 5.05 ERA.
In the winter of 1942-43, Tiant once again did not pitch in Cuba. However, he was definitely with the New York Cubans in the summers from 1943 through 1947. He also returned to Cuban winter ball, pitching two seasons with Marianao and two with Cienfuegos. He took part in a memorable 20-inning affair on December 2, 1943 – the longest game in the history of Cuban professional ball. Tiant went 15 innings, the first 14 scoreless, and allowed just one unearned run. The winter of 1945-46 was a high point. Cienfuegos, managed by Adolfo (Dolf) Luque, won the league championship. The international pitching staff included Sal "The Barber" Maglie, fellow Cuban Adrián Zabala, and Canadian Jean-Pierre Roy.
Tiant had his most notable Stateside season in 1947, winning 10 games and losing none for the Cubans. There were two East-West All-Star games that year, and he appeared in both of them. In Game One on July 27, at Comiskey Park, the West knocked Max Manning out of the box in the third inning. Tiant pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief. Two days later at the Polo Grounds in New York City, he relieved Rufus Lewis and allowed three runs in two innings.28
Tiant's roommate that year was José "Pantalones" Santiago, then a young man of 18, who later pitched briefly in the majors from 1954 through 1956. Santiago told author Lou Hernández, "Tiant was already up there in age. He was at least 40, and his record was phenomenal. Tiant was a serious individual. Tiant did not have any vices; he did not smoke or drink. He did not speak too much to me about pitching. He was a lefthander and I was a right-hander. Tiant had an extraordinary screwball. And an extraordinary pickoff move to first base."29 Santiago alluded to a funny story that Negro Leaguer Henry Kimbro told another author, Brent Kelley, in clearer detail. "[Tiant] was pitching for Cuban Stars, Fred McCreary was umpiring, Goose Curry was the hitter. Tiant went up and down and grunted and throwed that ball and Goose Curry swung and said, 'Jesus Christ! Man, how'd I miss it?!' Fred McCreary said, 'I oughtta call you out. That man throwed to first base.'"30
The Cubans faced the Cleveland Buckeyes in the 1947 Negro World Series. After the opening game at the Polo Grounds ended in a tie because of rain, Tiant started the next game at Yankee Stadium. He got the hook after allowing three runs in the first inning but got no decision; Cleveland eventually won 10-7. In Game Five at Chicago's Comiskey Park, Tiant was again ineffective, giving up four runs in three innings. The Cubans came back to win, 6-5, which also clinched the series and gave Alex Pómpez his only championship.31
Tiant finished his career in Cuban winter ball in the 1947-48 season, with an "alternative" league called La Liga Nacional (or Players Federation). The circuit, which lasted just one year, featured players who had become "outlaws" in the US because of their association with the Mexican League in 1946. Tiant recorded no decisions in 16 games for two teams, Santiago and Cuba. Luis C., then a seven-year-old boy, remembered watching from the dugout and becoming friends with a teenager named Rodolfo Arias.32 Arias eventually turned pro; the lefty pitched in 34 games for the Chicago White Sox in 1959.
All told, Luis E. Tiant played at home in 16 seasons (as documented). He compiled a record of 42 wins and 60 losses, leading the league in defeats five times. Unfortunately, his other Cuban statistics are largely missing or incomplete, and the same is true in general of the Negro Leagues. As a result, we cannot quantify what Roberto González Echevarría described as "uncanny control."33
Tiant went back to Mexico in 1948. He started off with San Luis Potosí, but the franchises there and in Tampico were folded as the Mexican League consolidated in response to financial difficulties.34 He then joined Monterrey. In total, Tiant appeared in 18 games, all in relief. He logged 58 1/3 innings, going 4-4 with a 5.55 ERA. He appears to have played that fall in La Liga Peninsular, on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, not far from Cuba.35 However, Luis E. Tiant then retired from baseball. As Luis C. told author Tom Boswell (then a columnist) in 1975, "He come back to Havana but he never go back to the game no more. Never. It's cruel."36
As author Mark Frost described, Tiant's meager savings were just enough to buy a half-interest in a truck. His brother-in-law owned the other half and they went into business together moving furniture. Isabel worked as a cook. Their son loved baseball, but Luis E. was reluctant to let the youth pursue a pro career in the sport because he remembered the persecution he had faced in the U.S. while earning paltry pay. Isabel was able to convince her husband, however, and so the younger Tiant went ahead and began to play for the Mexico City Tigers in 1959. The scout who signed him was Bobby Ávila, the Mexican second baseman, who was then still an active major-leaguer. Ávila and Luis E. had known each other for a long time.37
Luis C. also played one season (1960-61) in the Cuban winter league – it was the league's last, because Fidel Castro's regime abolished professional baseball. He left Havana in 1961 to return for his third season with the Tigers. Later that year, Luis E. warned his newlywed son not to come back home because of the change in the political climate. They did not see each other again for more than 14 years. They did exchange letters and talk often on the telephone, however, and Luis E. sometimes gave his son pitching advice. "He reminds me to keep skinny and throw hard," was one quote from 1966.38
In the winters of 1966-67 and 1967-68, Luis C. played in the Venezuelan league for the Caracas Leones. Two fellow Cubans – manager Regino Otero and coach Rodolfo Fernández – both knew his father well from their playing days together. In fact, Fernández (a righty pitcher) had been on the same staff as Luis E. with the New York Cubans for several years. Both men told Luis C. to his face, "You are a good pitcher, but your father was better."39
The separation from his parents clearly weighed on Luis C.40 The best that he could manage, however was some time with his mother in Mexico City in the fall and winter of 1968. Luis E. was allegedly jailed to ensure her return.41 There is uncertainty on this point, though; as Luis C. said in 2014, this was not a topic one discussed.42
In early 1975, Luis C. talked about the situation with Joe Fitzgerald of the Boston Herald. "How much longer? My father's seventy [sic] now and he's not well. Yet he still works in a garage down there, and here I am living like this, and I can't send him a dime for a cup of coffee. I listen to people in this country complain that they don't like this, they don't like that. I've got friends up here [fellow Cuban expatriates] whose parents have died and they couldn't go home to bury them. What can ever hurt like that? Now all the time, I think about my father dying and. . ."43
In addition to Luis E.'s job pumping gas (he had also worked as a security guard at a construction company), Isabel continued to work as a housekeeper.44 They were still living in Havana.45
Soon thereafter, things changed. During the first week of May 1975, U.S. Senator George McGovern made an unofficial visit to Cuba to see for himself what was happening in the nation and to meet with Castro.46 McGovern also bore a letter from his fellow Senator, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, requesting the favor of a Tiant family reunion in Boston. Sen. Brooke and Luis C. Tiant were friends.47 What's more, Ruth Seldon, the younger sister of Brooke's mother, was married to Alex Pómpez. In his 2007 autobiography, Brooke wrote fondly of his vacations in Harlem with his Aunt Ruth and Uncle Alex. He was aware of Pómpez's activity in baseball. It's not farfetched to think that he may have had firsthand memories of Luis E. Tiant.48
Sen. Brooke's letter to Castro suggested that "Luis [C.'s] career as a major league pitcher is in its latter years" – which turned out to be far from true – and added that "he is hopeful that his parents will be able to visit him during this current baseball season."49
Castro granted the request. As the story broke in the U.S., Luis C. was "overjoyed, but cautious. He didn't want to say too much." He'd wanted to go back to Cuba before but was afraid that he would not be able to leave again.50
Although the diplomatic mill ground slowly, in August Luis E. and Isabel flew to Mexico City. It took several days more for their visas to be finalized, but finally they flew to Boston. The meeting between the Tiants, their son, their daughter-in-law María, and three grandchildren was a deeply emotional time.51
On the night of August 26, 1975, Luis E. finally got to see his son perform in person in the major leagues. (He had previously caught occasional TV broadcasts.)52 Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey invited the old pitcher, who was still whippet-thin, to throw out the first pitch against the California Angels.53 It was a huge story in Boston – Luis C. was extremely popular for his personality and excellent pitching. It was national news as well. The Associated Press covered the story as follows.
"They stood together, father and son, on the pitcher's mound at Fenway Park. The older man, beaming, acknowledged the cheers of the crowd as he had in his playing days nearly 30 years ago.
Then Luis Tiant Sr. took off his coat and handed it to his boy, went into his windup and delivered a low fastball to Boston catcher Tim Blackwell.
Not satisfied with the form that may have lost something over the years, Tiant called for the ball again and fluttered a knuckleball across the plate as 32,086 voices roared. It was Luis Tiant of the New York Cubans, circa 1927-48, all over again.
He reclaimed his coat, whispered something in his son's ear, and left. Luis Tiant Jr., of the Boston Red Sox, took the mound.
"He just told me, 'Go get 'em. Don't worry about me being here,'" the younger Tiant recalled."54 Luis E. then joined Isabel, María, and grandchildren in the stands.55 It's also worth noting that he told his son, perhaps not entirely in jest, that "any time they [the Red Sox] need him, he can go four or five innings."56
Luis C. had an off night, giving up five runs in six innings and taking the loss as the Angels won, 8-2. After the game, though, he added, "Maybe he [Luis E.] will see me pitch in the World Series. I sure hope so."57 Luis C. was right. He missed 10 days with a back problem – incurred while trying too hard to please his father.58 He lost just one more game during the rest of the 1975 season, though, helping the Red Sox to win the AL pennant and performing heroically in the Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
As one would expect, Luis E. was at Fenway Park to watch his son's commanding 7-1 victory in Game One of the AL Championship Series against the Oakland A's. He was on hand in the locker room as Luis C. iced down his arm after going all the way.59 He and Isabel were also among the 2,000 fans who greeted the Red Sox at Boston's Logan Airport after the Sox had completed their sweep of Oakland. Luis C. and María were the first ones off the chartered plane.60
Luis E. was also at Fenway to see his son win the opener of the World Series, as well as the classic Game Six, which Boston won on Carlton Fisk's dramatic 12th-inning homer, five innings after Luis C. had come out of the game. However, the older man did not travel to Cincinnati for Game Four, in which his son gutted out a 5-4 complete-game win while throwing 163 pitches.61
After Boston beat Oakland to reach the Fall Classic, Luis E. had said confidently, "We're going to win it."62 Yet after Cincinnati came out on top in the dramatic seven-game battle, he said philosophically, "Someone has to win and someone has to lose."63
The loss to the Reds was bitter, but there was sweetness for the Tiants, as Mark Frost depicted. "The night after Luis's 6-0 gem in Game One, the Tiants hosted an impromptu gathering for family and friends at their home in [the Boston suburb of] Milton. At around two that morning, as the joyful celebration was winding down, Luis came through a door and saw his father looking up at him from a nearby easy chair, the sweetest, proud, sad smile on his face. He held out his arms, and Luis sat down beside him and they held onto each other, without saying a word, both of them crying silently. The dream, passed down from father to son, had come all the way home."64
Luis E. and Isabel had come to the U.S. on a three-month visa. They had said they were happy in Cuba and had no intention of staying in the U.S. permanently.65 As it developed, though, they stayed in Massachusetts on extended visas.66 One report said that a special arrangement had been made between the U.S. State Department and Cuba.67 The good offices of Sen. Edward Brooke may well have helped here too.
The three generations of Tiants lived together at Luis C. and María's home in Milton. Luis C. remembered the times when his parents were with him and watching him play as the best part of his entire career.68 In June 1976, American newspaper readers got to see another warm picture of father and son together as Luis C. was presented with a trophy by the National Father's Day Committee, which named him "Baseball Father of the Year." Both were grinning broadly and looking into each other's eyes; Luis C. had a friendly arm around his father's shoulders.69
Columnist Milton Richman wrote about this special bond. "I'll never forget him [Luis E.] standing off to a side underneath the stands at Fenway Park waiting patiently while Luis C. was being mobbed for his autograph after shutting out Cincinnati in the 1975 World Series opener. A special cop, who didn't know who he was, came up to him and wanted to know why he was standing there waiting. 'That's my son,' explained the elder Tiant, pointing toward Luis C. The cop said 'He's a great pitcher.' Luis Tiant Sr. merely smiled. 'He's an even better son,' he said."70
In mid-November 1976, Luis E. was admitted to Carney Hospital in Dorchester, just south of Boston. On December 2, the Associated Press reported that he had been undergoing treatment for an unspecified illness for two weeks and that he was in satisfactory condition.71 On Friday, December 10, however, Luis Eleuterio Tiant died of a heart attack.72 Luis C. said that while he and his mother were visiting the hospital, he sat nearby pretending not to listen and heard his father ask Isabel, "I am leaving, are you coming with me or staying?" She responded, "I am coming with you."73
Two days later, a wake was held for Luis E. at a funeral home in the nearby town of Brookline. After returning from the wake, Isabel was suddenly stricken by a heart attack herself. She was rushed to a hospital but died at 12:30 AM that Monday. It turned out to be a dual wake and funeral Mass, and the Tiants were buried side by side in Milton Cemetery. "I'm grateful to God for allowing my parents to be here and I'm grateful to Him for allowing me the chance to bury them," said Luis C. "Others like me are not so fortunate because their parents are still in Cuba and can't get out. Whatever happens is God's will."74
The numbers do not reflect Luis E. Tiant's artistry on the mound. Yet over six decades after his pitching career ended, Sir Skinny's memory was also honored on film. The touching 2009 documentary The Lost Son of Havana chronicles Luis C. Tiant's return to Cuba in 2007 after 46 years away, visiting with family members. It opens with a shot of Luis C. puffing on one of his trademark cigars and examining an old black-and-white photo of his father. That relationship is central to the film, which takes the time to explore Luis E.'s life and career. Included is the family reunion in 1975, with a clip of the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park that August. There is also rare action footage from the Negro Leagues. Thus it became possible for later generations of fans to catch at least a glimpse of how Lefty Tiant tantalized hitters.
Grateful acknowledgment to Luis Clemente Tiant for providing personal memories of his parents, and to SABR member José Ignacio Ramírez, who conducted an in-person interview with Tiant at the Ramírez home on September 7, 2014. Continued thanks to Rubén Amaro Sr. for his memories and Jorge Figueredo for his contribution of Cuban statistics.
With Cienfuegos, probably circa 1945 to 1947: Courtesy of César Brioso collection (cubanbeisbol.com)
At Fenway Park, August 26, 1975: Courtesy of the Boston Red Sox.
Burgos, Jr., Adrián, Cuban Star. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011.
Figueredo, Jorge S. Who's Who in Cuban Baseball, 1878-1961. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003.
Figueredo, Jorge S. Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History 1878-1961. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003.
Frost, Mark. Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime, New York, New York: Hyperion, 2009.
González Echevarría, Roberto. The Pride of Havana, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lester, Larry. Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
Tiant, Luis and Joe Fitzgerald. El Tiante, New York, New York: Doubleday, 1976.
Torres, Ángel. La Leyenda del Béisbol Cubano, 1878-1997, Miami, FL: Review Printers, 1996.
Treto Cisneros, Pedr.o ed., Enciclopedia del Béisbol Mexicano, Mexico City: Revistas Deportivas, S.A. de C.V., 11th edition, 2011.
The Lost Son of Havana, written and directed by Jonathan Hock, ESPN Films, 2009.
Armour, Mark. "Luis Tiant," SABR BioProject
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www.retrosheet.org
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1 Bruce Lowitt, "Tiant Proving Johnson Right About Last Look," Associated Press, August 6, 1974.
2 "Tiant, Parents, Reunited; Sox Host ChiSox Tonight," United Press International, August 22, 1975.
3 Thomas Boswell, "Tiant Sees World As Both Funny, Sad," Gannett News Service, October 10, 1975.
4 Nick Wilson, Early Latino Ballplayers in the United States, Jefferson City, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2005: 125.
5 Luis Tiant and Joe Fitzgerald, El Tiante, New York, New York: Doubleday, 1976.
6 Larry Lester, Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2001: 64. In 1966 , Bert Campaneris said that after Whitey Ford, Luis C. had the best pickoff move in the American League. Milton Richman, "Today's Sports Parade," United Press International, April 21, 1966.
7 Roberto González Echevarría, The Pride of Havana, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 261.
8 Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer, Stuart Shea, eds., The ESPN Pro Baseball Encyclopedia, New York, New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2007: 1699.
9 Regis McAuley, "Tiant, Overlooked in 1963 Draft, Is Now Toast of Tepee," The Sporting News, August 1, 1964, 9.
10 Dan Donovan, "Negro Leagues Reunion Stirs Fun Flashbacks," Pittsburgh Press, July 1, 1981, C-1.
11 According to José Ramírez, "When I interviewed [Luis C.] Tiant, he did not seem to recollect some of the names of that generation or preferred not to talk much about it. I could never be sure."
12 In-person interview, José I. Ramírez with Luis Clemente Tiant, September 7, 2014. Since Luis Eleuterio Tiant's father was also named Luis, this biography avoids the use of Sr. and Jr. when discussing the two pitchers, except for quotations. It is also worth noting that in Hispanic culture, people are often referred to by both of their given names.
13 In-person interview, José I. Ramírez with Luis Clemente Tiant, September 7, 2014.
14 Alan J. Pollock, Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006, 73.
15 "Cubans Annex Memphis Series," The Afro-American, April 30, 1932, 14.
16 Syd Pollock, "League Started in Wrong Year, Owner of Cuban Stars Believes," The Afro-American, July 9, 1932, 14.
17 González Echevarría, The Pride of Havana, 163.
18 Alan J. Pollock, Barnstorming to Heaven, 74.
19 Lester, 64.
20 Ibid., 78.
23 "Havana Nine Wins Ocer Cardinals," Associated Press, March 6, 1936.
24 William F. McNeil, Black Baseball Out of Season, Jefferson City, NC: McFarland & Co., 2007: 144, 217.
25 E-mail from Rubén Amaro Sr. to Rory Costello, August 18, 2014 (cited with permission).
26 "Cuban Stars Face Parkways Sunday," Brooklyn Eagle, May 19, 1939, 16.
27 Randy Dixon, "15,000 See Four Team Twin Bill in Yankee Stadium," Pittsburgh Courier, June 10, 1939, 16.
28 Lester, 285, 294, 302.
29 Lou Hernández, Memories of Winter Ball, Jefferson City, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2007: 209.
30 Brent Kelley, Voices from the Negro Leagues, Jefferson City, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 1998: 59.
31 Adrián Burgos, Jr., Cuban Star, New York: Hill and Wang, 2011, 175-176.
34 Jorge Alarcón, "Mexican Rosters Shapen Up after Loop's Shrinkage," The Sporting News, August 11, 1948, 36.
35 Jorge Alarcón, "Mexican League Players Shift to Yucatan's Loop," The Sporting News, October 6, 1948, 40.
36 Boswell, "Tiant Sees World As Both Funny, Sad"
37 Mark Frost, Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime, New York, New York: Hyperion, 2009.
38 Russell Schneider, "Dad Writes Often to Luis, Tells Him to Keep Skinny," The Sporting News, May 28, 1966, 6. "Elder Tiant Joins Fun with Red Sox, Angels," Associated Press, August 27, 1975.
40 "Tiant Real Worrier," The Sporting News, October 7, 1967, 47.
41 Mark Armour, "Luis Tiant," SABR BioProject. Drawn from Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante.
43 Armour, "Luis Tiant". Date of Fitzgerald's original article is uncertain.
44 Frost, Game Six. Ángel Torres, La Leyenda del Béisbol Cubano, 1878-1997, Miami, Florida: Review Printers, 1996, 247.
45 An Associated Press report from May 9, 1975 stated that Luis E. and Isabel were living 350 miles away from Havana at that time, but Luis C. refuted this assertion in 2014.
46 "McGovern flies to Cuba," Associated Press, May 6, 1975.
48 Edward W. Brooke, Bridging the Divide: My Life, Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
49 Various contemporary stories noted Brooke's involvement, but the direct quote from the letter may be found in Frost, Game Six.
50 O'Hara, "Luis Tiant to have reunion with parents".
51 Frost, Game Six.
52 "Elder Tiant Joins Fun with Red Sox, Angels".
54 "Luis Tiant Sr. returns to mound," Associated Press, August 27, 1975.
56 Peter Gammons, "Red Sox' Lee – Showman and a Super Pitcher," The Sporting News, September 13, 1975, 11.
57 "Luis Tiant Sr. returns to mound".
58 Boswell, "Tiant Sees World As Both Funny, Sad".
59 Peter Gammons, "Luis Tiant leads Red Sox past A's in Game 1," Boston Globe, October 5, 1975.
60 "Sox, Reds arrive home with flags," Associated Press, October 8, 1975.
62 "Sox Fans Line Up," United Press International, October 9, 1975.
63 "World Series Quotes," Sarasota Journal, October 23, 1975, 6-D.
64 Frost, Game Six
65 "Tiant, Parents, Reunited; Sox Host ChiSox Tonight".
66 "Tiants' Funeral Set Today," United Press International, December 14, 1976.
67 "People making the news," Associated Press, December 2, 1976.
69 "Dad's proud dad," United Press International, June 10, 1976.
70 Milton Richman, "Tiant's loss is felt by everyone," United Press International, December 15, 1976.
71 "People making the news".
72 Richman, "Tiant's loss is felt by everyone".
74 "Tiants' Funeral Set Today". Their resting place is noted in "Funeral conducted for Tiant's parents," Associated Press, December 15, 1976.
Luis Eleuterio Tiant Bravo
August 27, 1906 at La Habana, La Habana (CU)
December 10, 1976 at Milton, MA (US)
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