Charles Emmett Van Loan (1876-1919) was one of America's most popular sports writers. He began as a writer for the Los Angeles Morning Herald and later the Los Angeles Examiner. He was a prolific contributor of sports stories for leading magazines, in particular the Saturday Evening Post. The Philadelphia Public Ledger estimated that Van Loan had "the largest following of men readers of any magazine fiction writer". His works include: The Bonehead (1911), The Ten-Thousand Dollar Arm and Other Tales of the Big League (1912), Ghost Cities of the West (1915), Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories (1917), Fore! (1918), Art and the Dollar (1919), Buck Parvin and the Movies: Stories of the Moving Picture Game (1919), Taking the Count (1919) and Score by Innings: Baseball Stories (1919).
