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- ↑ "Central Steels are Hit When Hits are Needed to Win" The Evening Repository, Canton, Ohio, Monday, June 28, 1920, Page 9, column 3 and 4
- ↑ "John Cunningham". seamheads.com. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
