What a fun discovery, and to realize you're among such elite neighbors 😇
My thoughts were, after looking up Bright's disease, that suffering from kidney disease & diabetes in the 1900's had to be pretty miserable, and that Ewing must've been pretty savvy in his row house investments since his $60,000 estate equates to about $2 mil in today's dollars - far better than most ballplayers of those bygone days ended up with - per CPI inflation calc at bls.gov.
Here's hoping that bio shows him to have been a nicer person than the one JVL profiled!
He definitely played some dirty ball, it seems. But that was common then. His woes in Cincinnati appear to be both player and management related. I am interested in that, because it doesn't seem his tenure with the Reds was well remembered.
Ewing apparently didn't have the fan base or name recognition of a Pete Rose? Obvi a very different era back then, and fame not as broad even for a great position player from the Midwest. Rose's fan support hasn't changed his status for HOF. Wonder if Pete's failings hadn't occurred till our current time, would we as a culture have let him slide as we do with, say, a president?
What a fun discovery, and to realize you're among such elite neighbors 😇
My thoughts were, after looking up Bright's disease, that suffering from kidney disease & diabetes in the 1900's had to be pretty miserable, and that Ewing must've been pretty savvy in his row house investments since his $60,000 estate equates to about $2 mil in today's dollars - far better than most ballplayers of those bygone days ended up with - per CPI inflation calc at bls.gov.
Here's hoping that bio shows him to have been a nicer person than the one JVL profiled!
He definitely played some dirty ball, it seems. But that was common then. His woes in Cincinnati appear to be both player and management related. I am interested in that, because it doesn't seem his tenure with the Reds was well remembered.
Ewing apparently didn't have the fan base or name recognition of a Pete Rose? Obvi a very different era back then, and fame not as broad even for a great position player from the Midwest. Rose's fan support hasn't changed his status for HOF. Wonder if Pete's failings hadn't occurred till our current time, would we as a culture have let him slide as we do with, say, a president?