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- ↑ "Indianapolis Athletics". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- ↑ "1937 Indianapolis Athletics Statistics -- Register | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ↑ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
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