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- ↑ "1899 Shreveport Tigers" . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
- ↑ "Negro Texas League (1949)" (PDF). cnlbr.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
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