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John Stedronsky (June 12, 1850 – May 11, 1924) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball for the 1879 Chicago White Stockings. He was the first Austrian in the history of Major League Baseball.
Stedronsky was born in Czechoslovakia on June 12, 1850, and his family emigrated to the United Statets in 1852. He married and had five children. Stedronsky suffered a stroke and died on May 11, 1924. He was buried at Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
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