Walter Lee Hardy

{{short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Walter Lee Hardy

| image = Walter Hardy Baseball.jpg

| position = Shortstop

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|12|1|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Lakeland, Florida, U.S.

| death_date = September, 1980

| death_place = Rockland County, New York, U.S.

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1944

| debutteam = New York Black Yankees

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1950

| finalteam = Kansas City Monarchs

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| teams =

• New York Black Yankees (1944–1948)
• New York Cubans (1949)
• Kansas City Monarchs (1950)

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Walter Lee Hardy (December 1, 1925 – September, 1980) was an American Negro league shortstop in the 1940s.

A native of Lakeland, Florida, Hardy was known as a flashy fielder, but a weak batter.{{cite web|author=Justin Kline |url=https://www.plantcityobserver.com/league-their-own/ |title=A League of Their Own |publisher=baseball-reference.com |date=March 11, 2016 |accessdate=August 4, 2020}} Following his Negro league career, he continued to play throughout the early 1950s for the Saint-Jean Canadiens of the Provincial League.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hardy-001wal |title=Walter Hardy |publisher=baseball-reference.com |date= |accessdate=August 4, 2020}}

After his playing career, Hardy became a business partner of Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Campanella, and died in Rockland County, New York in 1980 at age 54.