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- ↑ Baseball-Reference player statistics
- ↑ "The Baseball Historian". Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2007.
- ↑ Baseball-Reference managerial statistics
- ↑ Baseball-Almanac player page
