Bob (Concrete) Zielinski
was such an outstanding semipro baseball player in his youth that he
was offered a job at the Crucible Steel Plan in Midland so he could
play for the famous Finishing Mill baseball teams, which won the
Steel League championship and later went on to several national
tournaments. Before coming to Midland, Bob lived in Sharpsburg and played for many
of the top semipro baseball teams of the 1920s. The versatile
Bob also was an end in semipro football and played for Art
Rooney’s famous Hope Harveys. After coming to Beaver County, he
played throughout the 1930s for semipro baseball teams in Beaver
Falls as well as such well known teams as the Rochester Whippets and
Beaver Grays. But it was in boxing that Bob achieved his greatest
fame as a scrappy middleweight. From 1922 to 1925 he won all 35 of
his amateur bouts, and then turned pro and won 25 of 26 bouts in the
next six years losing only to Bob Crepe on a close decision. Bob retired from boxing in 1931 and
was inducted into the Beaver
County Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972.
Bob (Concrete) Zielinski
was such an outstanding semipro baseball player in his youth that he
was offered a job at the Crucible Steel Plan in Midland so he could
play for the famous Finishing Mill baseball teams, which won the
Steel League championship and later went on to several national
tournaments. Before coming to Midland, Bob lived in Sharpsburg and played for many
of the top semipro baseball teams of the 1920s. The versatile
Bob also was an end in semipro football and played for Art
Rooney’s famous Hope Harveys. After coming to Beaver County, he
played throughout the 1930s for semipro baseball teams in Beaver
Falls as well as such well known teams as the Rochester Whippets and
Beaver Grays. But it was in boxing that Bob achieved his greatest
fame as a scrappy middleweight. From 1922 to 1925 he won all 35 of
his amateur bouts, and then turned pro and won 25 of 26 bouts in the
next six years losing only to Bob Crepe on a close decision. Bob retired from boxing in 1931 and
was inducted into the Beaver
County Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972.