"Frank Merriwell's Son; Or, A Chip Off the Old Block" by Burt L. Standish

William George "Gilbert" Patten was a writer of dime novels and is best known as the author of the Frank Merriwell stories under the name Burt L. Standish. Merriwell was the model for all later American juvenile sports fiction, he excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. In this book, the author shows that this prowess is genetic and follows his son as he takes on the same adventures his father jumped at.