Andrew Jackson Bednar was an American

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. He played in

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(MLB) during the 1930 and 1931 seasons for the

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."Andy Bednar Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-12. He died in 1937 at the age of 29 in

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, after an auto accident.

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