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Harry Leavell

American baseball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ108538338 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harry Gowan Leavell (July 16, 1879 – death date unknown), nicknamed "Ha Ha", was an American Negro league first baseman between 1908 and 1911.

A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Leavell played for the Cuban Giants in 1908 and 1911.

In 1915, he managed the Giants.

Editorial summary

“Harry Leavell” enters the record as american baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harry, Leavell and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1908, 1911, 1915—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1879-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Harry, Leavell and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Harry Leavell” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harry, Leavell and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q108538338. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1908, 1911 and 1915.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Harry Leavell primary sources, Harry Leavell archive and Harry research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Harry Leavell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.