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- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140222004303/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Rick_Bosetti_1953&page=summary Baseball Library
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- ↑ http://www.simpsonuniversity.edu Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Simpson University
