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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ Vic Jordan at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved July 2, 2012. Archived from the original on July 19, 2015.
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- ↑ Spalding Book of Rules ( ISBN 1570281491) Bing Broido and Elmer Wexler. NY: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books, 1998; numerous other editions exist
- ↑ More Instant Tennis Lessons ( ISBN 0914178709) Lamarche, Robert J. illus by Elmer Wexler. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984
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