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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."〔 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." When Ed Walsh won 40 games in 1908, Dryden memorably described him as "the only man I've ever known who could strut sitting down." In 1965, Dryden was posthumously inducted into the "writers' wing" of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the fourth person to receive the honor. His biography at the Baseball Hall of Fame notes that he was "often regarded as the master baseball writer of his time."〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum )〕 ==Early years== Dryden was born in March 1860 in Monmouth, Illinois.〔 His father, William A. Dryden, was an Ohio native who worked as a salesman.〔 Dryden did not attend college and worked as a young man as a moulder in an iron foundry. At the time of the 1880 United States Census, Dryden was living with his father in Monmouth, and his occupation was listed as a "moulder."〔1880 Census entry for W.A. Dryden and family.〕 Several accounts indicate that he wrote humorous sketches while working at the foundry and was urged him pursue a writing career by a friend who read his sketches.〔〔 Dryden traveled extensively as a young man, taking jobs as a merchant sailor and fisherman.〔 One colleague noted that there was "a queer gleam, as of the old wanderlust, in the man's eyes when he falls to talking of the sea."〔 In the early 1890s, Dryden visited and wrote about Robert Louis Stevenson at Stevenson's home in Vailima, Samoa. His portrayal of Stevenson's life in Samoa was described as "one of the nearest and most clear-cut pictures yet made on the subject." Dryden later published an autobiographical account of his years on the road. The book, titled "On and Off the Bread Wagon: Being the Hard Luck Tales, Doings and Adventures of an Amateur Hobo" was published in 1905. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Dryden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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