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- ↑ 2010 UCLA Baseball Media Guide, UCLA Athletic Department, 2010
- ↑ Box score of game featuring York's home run
- ↑ Durso, Joseph. "White Sox Add Bahnsen, Ship McKinney to Yanks," The New York Times, Friday, December 3, 1971. Retrieved December 5, 2021
