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- 1 2 "Baseball's youngest pro made here". www.statesboroherald.com.
- ↑ "Batboy barrels his way into Hall of Fame".
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- ↑ "Blue & Gray Park". Fitzgerald, Ga.
- ↑ "1948 Fitzgerald Pioneers Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.