Career
He was also a professional boxer and baseball player. Bob Zielinski was born in 1901 in Warsaw, Poland and came to the United States of America in 1906. He lived in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania and played semi-pro baseball for such teams as the Butler All-Stars and Springdale Canonsburg Stars of the Pittsburgh City League.
Later he played for teams in Beaver Falls as well as the Beaver Grays and the Rochester Whippets.
In football he started for the Carrick Odds, Art Rooneys Hope-Harvey (now the Pittsburgh Steelers), Sharpsburg Tigers and Midland Merchants. He was boxing amateur from 1922 to 1925, and was undefeated for 35 fights.
From 1925 to 1931 he was professional boxer with 60 wins and one loss.
