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- ↑ "Wilmington, North Carolina Minor League History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- Holaday, Chris (2016). The Tobacco State League; A North Carolina Baseball History, 1946–1950. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-6670-9.
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