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- ↑ "Monessen, Pennsylvania Minor League History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
- ↑ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007