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- ↑ "Batboy barrels way into Hall of Fame". MiLB.com. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ↑ Dewey, Donald. The New Biographical History of Baseball. Triumph Books, 2002, p. 344.
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- ↑ "The youngest ballplayer ever was HOW old?". MLB.com .
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