Charles Dryden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Dryden

Baseball writer and humorist

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1860

Place of Birth: Monmouth, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1931

Profession: journalist, sportswriter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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."In 1965, Dryden was posthumously inducted into the "writers' wing" of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the fourth writer to receive that honor.
His biography at the Baseball Hall of Fame notes that he was "often regarded as the master baseball writer of his time."