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- ↑ July 28, 1997 Milwaukee-Toronto box score at Baseball Reference
- ↑ "Pitching Game Finder". Stathead.com. Sports Reference . Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ↑ Steve Woodard, Baseball-Reference
