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- ↑ "Jimmie Foxx stats". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- ↑ Red Kress page at Baseball Reference
- ↑ Bradlee, Jr., Ben (2013). The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams. New York, New York: Little, Brown and Company. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-316-61435-1.
- 1 2 Cole, Milton; Kaplan, Jim (2009). The Boston Red Sox: An Illustrated History. North Dighton, Massachusetts: World Publications Group. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-57215-412-4.
- ↑ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p. 151, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
- ↑ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
