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- ↑ Timothy Cox Baseball Cube
- ↑ "Tim Cox retires". Sons of Sam Horn. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ↑ 2008 Claxton Shield Archive
- ↑ Claxton Shield Statistics
- ↑ 2010 Claxton Shield Statistics Archived 14 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine