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Everbach, Tracy. “Breaking Baseball Barriers: The 1953–1954 Negro League and Expansion of Women’s Public Roles.”
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Fairbanks, Evelyn.
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Fairclough, Adam.
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Freedman, Lew.
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Gisclair, S. Derby.
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Green, Michelle Y.
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Griffin, Jimmy, with Kwame J. C. McDonald.
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———. “League of Her Own: Tomboy Stone Dead at Age 75.” Minneapolis–Saint Paul
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———. “Rondo kids Were Tough, but ‘Tomboy’ Toughest.”

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———. “She Wasn’t Afraid to Swing for the Fences.” Minneapolis–Saint Paul
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Hardy, Arthur.
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Heaphy, Leslie.
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Heaphy, Leslie, ed.
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Heaphy, Leslie, and Mel Anthony May.
Encyclopedia of Women in Baseball.
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Henderson, Ashyia, ed.
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“He Rubbed Shoulders with Greats of the Game.”
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Hoffbeck, Steven, ed.
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Hogan, Lawrence D.
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Holway, John.
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“Honoring a Local Hero.”
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Hudson, Mike. “She Was a Relentless Spirit.”
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“Is Negro Baseball Through?”
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Jacobson, Steve.
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Jacox, Cal. “Press Box.”
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James, Joy.
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Jennings, Jay. “A League of His Own.”
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Keenan, Sandy. “Stone Had a Ball.”
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Kelley, Brent.
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The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes.
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———. “Peanut Johnson: First Woman to Win a Pro Ballgame.
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Voices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations with 52 Black Standouts.
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Kernan, Kevin. “Li’l Lady Dazzled Negro League Hit Men.”
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Kimball, Richard Ian. “Beyond the ‘Great Experiment’: Integrated Baseball Comes to Indianapolis.”
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King, Martin Luther Jr.
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Lanctot, Neil.
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Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007.

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Lewis, Ted. “Negro Leagues Had Local Flavor.” New Orleans
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Lieb, Fred.
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Loverro, Thom.
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Madden, W. C.
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Markusen, Bruce.
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Mays, Willie, with Lou Sahadi.
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McNary, Kyle. “Maceo Breedlove: Big Fish in a Small Pond.”
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McWatt, Arthur C. “‘Small and Cohesive’: St. Paul’s Resourceful African-American Community.”
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Meyer, Eugene. “For Love of the Game.”
Washington Post
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Miller, Sammy J., and Dick Clark.
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Mills, Quincy T. “‘Color-Line’ Barbers and the Emergence of Black Public Space: A Social and Political History of Black Barbers and Barber Shops, 1830–1970.” Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2006.

Minot, George. “Ball Stirs Old Memories of Street’s Famed Catch.”
Washington Post
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