Together with Moe Drabowsky, Nap Kloza and Henry Peploski, Reder is one of only four Major League Baseball players to be born in Poland.

[1][a] Born in Lublin, Poland, Reder emigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and settled in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Reder initially played as a goalkeeper for several local Fall River amateur teams, including Champion Niagara and Walsh Chevrolet.

Together with a team that included Billy Gonsalves, Bert Patenaude, Werner Nilsen and Alex McNab, Reder helped the 'Marksmen' win American Soccer League titles in both the spring and fall seasons.

With the decline of the American Soccer League, he then switched back to baseball and in 1932 played 17 games for the Boston Red Sox.

He had a record of 5 hits, 4 runs, 1 double, 3 RBI, 6 walks and 6 strikeouts and played his last game for the Red Sox on June 12.

[8][9][10] Reder subsequently worked as an engineer and served in the United States Navy during World War II, before returning to Fall River, Massachusetts, where he died in 1990 from arteriosclerotic heart disease.