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Reuben Ewing Baseball player

Reuben Ewing (born Reuben Cohen on November 30, 1899) was a Jewish Russian-American baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals.Ewing (then Cohen) was born in Odessa, Ukraine to Jewish-Russian parents and emigrated with them to the United States in 1904. As a child he showed brilliant athletic talent, a foreshadow of his later achievement of making the major leagues. In order to avoid anti-semitism Cohen became "Ewing". He later attended Lebanon Valley College.