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- ↑ Staff. "Boxer's Big Fight Is Against Time", The New York Times , August 2, 1983. Accessed May 10, 2017. "Mann grew up in Forked River, a small, summer resort town along the Jersey shore."
- ↑ Mannschreck, Theodore and Brennan, William, "Fighting For Redemption: "The Irish" Teddy Mann Story" (Toms River: Emerald isle Press,LLC, 2011), p.107.
- ↑ The Bulletin, "Mann Nearing Shot At World Title" Ray Didlinger, Tuesday, July 17, 1979.
- ↑ Ring Magazine, April 1982 issue.