Birth Name: Stephen James Strasburg
Place of Birth: San Diego, California
Date of Birth: July 20, 1988
Ethnicity: German, English
Stephen Strasburg is a baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals. He is the son of Kathleen (Swett) and James Strasburg.
Stephen’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, John Adam Strausberger and Barbara Catherine Funderburg, and to John’s father, Ernst Jacob Strausberger, who was born, c. 1700, in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Stephen’s paternal grandparents are Roger Earl Strasburg (the son of Earl Francis Strasburg and Bessie Alnora Roth) and Betty Jo. Stephen’s great-grandfather Earl was the son of Charles L. Strawsburg and Mary Ellen Whiteleather. Bessie was the daughter of Norman Roth and Eliza Ann Hartong.
Stephen’s maternal grandparents are ? Swett and Evelyn.
Sources: http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/not-a-jew-stephen-strasburg/
Obituary of Stephen’s paternal grandfather, Roger Earl Strasburg – http://www.findagrave.com
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