Charles Dryden | |
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.png) Charles Dryden in 1907 | |
| Born | March 1860[1] |
| Died | February 11, 1931 (aged 70) |
| Occupation(s) | Baseball writer and humorist |
| Awards | J. G. Taylor Spink Award (1965) |
Charles Dryden (March 10, 1860 – February 11, 1931) was an American baseball writer and humorist. He was reported to be the most famous and highly paid baseball writer in the United States during the 1900s. Known for injecting humor into his baseball writing, Dryden was credited with elevating baseball writing from the commonplace. In 1928, The Saturday Evening Post wrote: "The greatest of all the reporters, and the man to whom the game owes more, perhaps, than to any other individual, was Charles Dryden, the Mark Twain of baseball."[2]
In 1965, Dryden posthumously received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the highest award bestowed by the Baseball Writers' Association of America; he was the fourth writer to receive that honor. His biography at the National Baseball Hall of Fame notes that he was "often regarded as the master baseball writer of his time."[3]
- ^ Census entry for Chas. Dryden, reporter, born March 1860 in Illinois. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Philadelphia Ward 5, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T623_1454; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 107.
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