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John Ewing

American baseball player (1863-1895)

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Born: June 1, 1863
Died: April 23, 1895
Birthplace: Cincinnati
Place of death: Denver
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: baseball player
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John Ewing, nicknamed "Long John", was an American professional baseball player. He was a pitcher over four seasons (1888–1891) with the Louisville Colonels, New York Giants of the Players' League, and New York Giants of the National League. Prior to that he was an outfielder in 1883 and 1884. In six years in the major leagues, Ewing played in four different leagues.

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MLB batting stats — season by season

7 seasons · from AIDb's MLB batting dataset

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
1883	St. Louis Browns	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	0	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
1884	Cincinnati Outlaw Reds	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	0	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
1884	Washington Nationals	1	5	1	1	0	1	0	—	—	0	—	.200	.200	.600	.800
1888	Louisville Colonels	21	79	6	16	1	1	0	5	7	1	15	.203	.213	.241	.453
1889	Louisville Colonels	41	134	12	23	2	0	0	6	5	9	30	.172	.234	.187	.421
1890	New York Giants	35	114	18	24	2	1	2	17	2	5	35	.211	.244	.298	.542
1891	New York Giants	33	113	10	23	1	0	0	8	4	3	14	.204	.224	.212	.437
Career		133	454	47	87	6	3	2	36	18	18	94	.192	.226	.231	.457

MLB pitching stats — season by season

4 seasons · from AIDb's MLB pitching dataset

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP
1888	Louisville Colonels	8	13	21	21	21	2	0	191.0	175	60	3	34	87	2.83	1.094
1889	Louisville Colonels	6	30	40	39	37	1	0	331.0	407	179	6	147	155	4.87	1.674
1890	New York Giants	18	12	35	31	27	1	2	267.1	294	126	6	104	145	4.24	1.489
1891	New York Giants	21	8	33	30	28	5	0	269.1	237	68	2	105	138	2.27	1.270
Career		53	63	129	121	113	9	2	1,058.2	1,113	433	17	390	525	3.68	1.420

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Given name: John
Family name: Ewing
Member of sports team: San Francisco Giants
Position played on team / speciality: pitcher
Sport: baseball
Sex or gender: male
League: Major League Baseball

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