Springfield Massachusetts Republican, January 21, 1914View transcription
DANNY GREEN INSANE.
Springfield Favorite Never Recovered From Being Hit With Ball.
Edward Danny Green, a great favorite as a member of the Springfield team of the old Eastern league days and later one of the leading outfielders in the major leagues, is now an inmate of the Camden county hospital, Blackwood, N. J. Danny is a mental wreck. His condition is traced to an accident received in the summer of 1912 while a member of the Des Moines club of the Western league. Green was struck in the head with a pitched ball in a game and for several days his life was in danger. When he did recover consciousness, softening of the brain and partial paralysis of the lower limbs set in.
Green's son, Edward, Jr., now 16, was with him and the pair went to Chicago, where the sympathy of Jim Callahan, the stricken ball player's old outfield mate, was enlisted. Callahan proved the right kind of friend, for he had Danny sent to the Cook county institution for the feeble-minded. Then he sent the son to a boarding school, paying the tuition out of his own pocket. The boy is still there. Green's wife is dead, but his mother and sister, who live in Camden, were notified of the ball player's predicament. Lately the mother and sister decided that they would like to have Danny nearby, where they could visit him; and a fund was raised by friends in Camden to defray his expenses from Chicago to his home town.
Green has seen 13 years of service on the diamond. He was born and raised in Camden and was a member of the famous Mudhens. On the team with Danny were Widow Conroy and Harry Gleason, brother of Kid Gleason, who also won fame in the big leagues. Green was very popular with the old guard on the Athletic team. Men like Harry Davis, Dan Murphy, Eddie Plank and Chief Bender are numbered among his friends. Shortly after his accident, while Jim Callahan was arranging to have him placed in a hospital, Green sat on the Athletics' bench in a game in Chicago with the White Sox. He was only a shell of his old self and looked at the battle in a dazed manner. When the Athletics went to the clubhouse after the game the hat was passed and a sum raised for the unfortunate player.
Springfield Favorite Never Recovered From Being Hit With Ball.
Edward Danny Green, a great favorite as a member of the Springfield team of the old Eastern league days and later one of the leading outfielders in the major leagues, is now an inmate of the Camden county hospital, Blackwood, N. J. Danny is a mental wreck. His condition is traced to an accident received in the summer of 1912 while a member of the Des Moines club of the Western league. Green was struck in the head with a pitched ball in a game and for several days his life was in danger. When he did recover consciousness, softening of the brain and partial paralysis of the lower limbs set in.
Green's son, Edward, Jr., now 16, was with him and the pair went to Chicago, where the sympathy of Jim Callahan, the stricken ball player's old outfield mate, was enlisted. Callahan proved the right kind of friend, for he had Danny sent to the Cook county institution for the feeble-minded. Then he sent the son to a boarding school, paying the tuition out of his own pocket. The boy is still there. Green's wife is dead, but his mother and sister, who live in Camden, were notified of the ball player's predicament. Lately the mother and sister decided that they would like to have Danny nearby, where they could visit him; and a fund was raised by friends in Camden to defray his expenses from Chicago to his home town.
Green has seen 13 years of service on the diamond. He was born and raised in Camden and was a member of the famous Mudhens. On the team with Danny were Widow Conroy [sic] and Harry Gleason, brother of Kid Gleason, who also won fame in the big leagues. Green was very popular with the old guard on the Athletic team. Men like Harry Davis, Dan Murphy, Eddie Plank and Chief Bender are numbered among his friends. Shortly after his accident, while Jim Callahan was arranging to have him placed in a hospital, Green sat on the Athletics' bench in a game in Chicago with the White Sox. He was only a shell of his old self and looked at the battle in a dazed manner. When the Athletics went to the clubhouse after the game the hat was passed and a sum raised for the unfortunate player.
