Charles Dryden (disambiguation)

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Charles Dryden (1860–1931) was an American baseball writer and humorist.

Charles Dryden Baseball writer and humorist

Charles Dryden 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."

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Charles Dryden (1666–1704), was chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII, He was the eldest son of John Dryden the poet. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Oxford: translated Juvenal's seventh satire for his father's version, 1692. He drowned in the Thames.

Charles Henry Dryden was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1885 to 1894.

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