Oscar Bielaski was an American

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 right fielder

Right fielder

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 and the first Polish-American to play Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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, playing from 1872 until 1876. His father was Alexander Bielaski

Alexander Bielaski

Alexander Bielaski was a civil engineer and Captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

, a Captain for the Union army, died at the battle of Belmont. Oscar learned to play baseball while enlisted in the Union Army as a drummer.

Oscar was born in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, and died there, at the age of 64. He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna Lee, a great...

 in Arlington, Virginia.

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