Arvel Odell Hale (August 10, 1908 – June 9, 1980) was a Major League Baseball infielder in the 1930s and early 1940s, primarily for the Cleveland Indians.

Hale attended 11 years of elementary and high school, and took a job working at an oil refinery in El Dorado at the age of 17.

By 1930, he was working as a tank car loader for Lion Oil, and had also been playing semipro baseball.

[2] Also in 1930, Hale married Mabel Jane Rainwater, a Native American from Oklahoma.

After retiring, Hale took a job with a defense plant in El Dorado, Arkansas, a firm that was later bought up by Monsanto Chemical Company.