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- ↑ "West Dixie League (C) Encyclopedia and History" . Retrieved 2015-03-11.
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Lloyd Johnson & Miles Wolff, editors (Third ed.). Baseball America. 2007. ISBN 978-1932391176.
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