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- 1 2 3 "Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910
- ↑ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.