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- ↑ Berman, Jay (19 November 2012). "Short stay: Black baseball briefly had West Coast home". ocregister.com. The Orange County Register. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ↑ "West Coast Negro Baseball Association (1946)" (PDF). cnlbr.org. Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ↑ "Negro League Ball Parks" (PDF). cnlbr.org. Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved 27 April 2020.