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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. Dryden originated many of the expressions used in baseball writing, including the terms pinch hit, ball yard, and old horsehide. He also coined the nicknames The Hitless Wonders for the 1906 Chicago White Sox, Fred Bonehead Merkle, Frank The Peerless Leader Chance, and Charles The Old Roman Comiskey. In describing the last-place 1909 Washington Senators, he famously wrote: Washington - first in war, first in peace and last in the American League.

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