"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." - Sam Ewing.
Samuel James Ewing (born 9 April, 1949) is a former baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. He batted left and threw right.
Ewing attended the University of Tennessee, where he was an All-American. Ewing had a collegiate batting average of .412, hitting a high of .464 in his junior year.. Ewing was drafted in the first round by the Montreal Expos (1969) and Chicago White Sox.
In Ewing's first major league game, he was struck out four straight times by Nolan Ryan, who struck out 17 with the Anaheim Angels. His final American League game was on October 1, 1978. Afterward he went to play in for the Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan, where he batted .287, had moderate power and reasonable success.