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- ↑ Sonoma Stompers Roster
- ↑ Lindbergh, Ben; Miller, Sam (3 May 2016). The Only Rule is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1627795647.
- ↑ "Sean Conroy, the First Active Pro Baseball Player to Come Out, Discusses the Future"
- ↑ Sean Conroy RPI Baseball biography
- ↑ "Sean Conroy of RPI picks up honors"
- ↑ Article in Slate
- ↑ NBC Bay Area
- ↑ Sonoma Stompers 2015 pitching statistics
- ↑ Sonoma Stompers 2016 pitching statistics
- ↑ “ LGBT Sports history: Sean Conroy was pro baseball’s first gay active player”