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- ↑ Bready, James H. (1 October 1991). "Newington in the mist". Baltimore Sun. ISBN 0-8018-5833-X . Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ Bready, James H. (1998). Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- ↑ "Your Baltimore Canaries: a very brief history of Baltimore's second professional base ball team". mdhs.org. Maryland Historical Society Library. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
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