"Holway, John." In Contemporary Authors. Ed. Cynthia R. Fadool. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976. A brief summary of Holway's life and career.

"Negro Leagues Register." In The Baseball Encyclopedia. Rick Wolff, et al., ed. New York: Macmillan, ninth edition, 1993, pp. 2609-2680. Although far from a complete listing of all Negro leaguers, this has the most authoritative statistics for many of the stars of the Negro leagues.