Harvey Shackleford
American author
Also known as: Hal Standish
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contribution to baseball literature
- In baseball: Baseball and the arts
…Stratemeyer (as Lester Chadwick), and Harvey Shackleford (as Hal Standish) created all-American baseball heroes like Frank Merriwell, Baseball Joe, and Fred Fearnot to inspire and delight their readers. This tradition reached its height of popularity in the 1940s with the adolescent novels of John R. Tunis that featured the Brooklyn…
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