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- ↑ News Archive Baseball WA
- ↑ 2008 Claxton Shield Rosters Flintoff and Dunn
- ↑ Perth wins finals, claims back-to-back Claxton titles News.com.au - Gemma Laidler 21 October 2009
- ↑ DAVID PENROSE (8 October 2019). "BORAL TEAM AUSTRALIA'S PREMIER12 ROSTER ANNOUNCED". baseball.com.au. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
