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- ↑ "Evansville Otters Baseball: All-Time Managers". evansvilleotters.com.
- ↑ "RailCats Announce Longterm Contract Extension for Manager Greg Tagert". oursportscentral.com. 15 January 2008.
- ↑ "Fan Zone - Latest News - Official Site of the Gary South Shore RailCats". RailCatsBaseball.com.
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- ↑ "ValleyCats Name Greg Tagert as New Field Manager". Tri-City ValleyCats. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ↑ "Frontier League Top Managers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ↑ DuBois County Dragons
- ↑ "Northern League Awards". northernleague.com.