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- ↑ Baseball-Reference
- ↑ Baseball Almanac
- ↑ Society for American Baseball Research
- ↑ Philadelphia Inquirer
- ↑ Baseball-Reference
- ↑ vconline
- ↑ CWGC Cemetery report, breakdown obtained from casualty record.
