Samuel James Ewing (born April 9, 1949) is a former baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. He batted and threw left. Ewing attended the University of Tennessee. His final American League game was on October 1, 1978. Afterwards he went on to play in Japan for the Nippon-Ham Fighters where he had moderate power and reasonable success.His educational background includes graduating from John Overton Comprehensive High School in 1966, a bachelors degree from University of Tennessee. He got his master's degree in Exercise Physiology and worked on his doctorate in Sports Psychology at Michigan State University. Today, Sam is a college educator in Topeka, Kansas.