Paul Sewald is the eldest son of two accountants, Mark and Judi, who raised him in a Las Vegas suburb and sent him off to follow in their footsteps at the University of San Diego, where he set himself up to join the family business by earning his bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Those math skills were put to the test over the next five years, as he scrabbled to build a life from a $1,000 signing bonus and minor league wages. “I shouldn’t have to quit baseball because I can’t afford to live out my dream,” Sewald said in an interview in 2019.