David L. Fleitz (2009). The Irish in Baseball: An Early History. McFarland. p. 82. ISBN978-0786453047.("Edward (Ned) Hanlon, born in Connecticut in 1857, was the son of a cotton mill worker and a housewife who fled Ireland a decade before. Ned, the sixth of seven children, worked with his father and older brothers in the mill, but his baseball skill saved him from a life in the factory.")
