1. Charles Dryden was an American baseball writer and humorist.
28 Facts About Charles Dryden
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Charles Dryden was reported to be the most famous and highly paid baseball writer in the United States during the 1900s.
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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.
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Charles Dryden's father, William A Dryden, was an Ohio native who worked as a salesman.
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Charles Dryden did not attend college and worked as a young man as a moulder in an iron foundry.
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Charles Dryden traveled extensively as a young man, taking jobs as a merchant sailor and fisherman.
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Charles Dryden later published an autobiographical account of his years on the road.
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Charles Dryden had reportedly never seen a regular game of baseball before the assignment.
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Charles Dryden asked Freedman for a comment on a player with whom Freedman was in a salary dispute.
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The next day, Charles Dryden ran an article noting that he had been informed of the ban while trying to put a tablespoon of soup in his mouth at the hotel restaurant.
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Hearst reportedly made "exceptional offers" to persuade Charles Dryden to stay, but the Philadelphia newspaper was the high bidder.
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The Philadelphia Athletics of the early 1900s, with colorful players like Rube Waddell, Ossee Schreckengost, Chief Bender and Socks Seybold, were ideally suited to Charles Dryden's colorful writing style.
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In one of his most famous stories, Charles Dryden wrote about a "bleary-eyed" Rube Waddell leaving a saloon and jumping into the Delaware River to rescue what he believed to be a drowning woman.
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Charles Dryden wrote that Magee had enjoyed a midnight dinner of Welsh rarebit which was followed by a vivid dream in which Magee was batting against Mordecai Brown.
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In October 1906, the Chicago Daily Tribune signed Charles Dryden to cover the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs during the 1907 baseball season.
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Charles Dryden was the highest paid sports writer in the United States at the Chicago Daily Tribune.
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Charles Dryden remained in Chicago for several years and worked variously for the Chicago Examiner and the Chicago Herald-Examiner, as well as the Chicago Daily Tribune.
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Charles Dryden was fondly remembered by the generation of sports writers and fans who grew up reading his work.
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Baseball Hall of Fame writer Fred Lieb wrote that Charles Dryden inspired him to become a baseball writer.
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Charles Dryden brought wit and humor to sports news and combined a passion for journalism with a talent for entertainment.
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Charles Dryden developed enduring nicknames for the baseball personalities of his era.
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Charles Dryden was responsible for coining phrases that became a part of baseball's lexicon.
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Charles Dryden was known for engaging in a "battle of wits" with editors and proofreaders as he tried to weave double entendres into his work.
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Charles Dryden was known to spice his game coverage with fanciful yarns.
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In June 1921, Charles Dryden suffered a stroke at age 61 while visiting Chicago to receive treatment from an eye specialist.
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At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Charles Dryden was living in Ocean Springs with his sister.
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Charles Dryden died in February 1931 at a hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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In November 1965, Dryden became the fourth writer selected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America to receive the J G Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing.