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Edward "Danny" Green (1876–1914) was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, played semipro baseball in Camden, and spent eight seasons in the major leagues with the Chicago Orphans and the Chicago White Stockings. One of the fastest players in the game, he was disabled after being hit in the head by a pitched ball and died at the Camden County Hospital at Blackwood in 1914.
William Ferguson managed the Ferguson Baseball Club, one of several teams active in Camden during the early 1890s.
Garrett Cowls was born in Camden on August 1, 1850, to William and Mary Cowls. His father worked for the railroad. Although Garret Cowls was too young to take part in the Civil War, he did serve in the United States Army during the Indian Wars.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's obituary of Danny Green, who died at the Camden County Hospital at Blackwood after years of illness following a pitched ball to the head, and recalls his career in Camden, Springfield, Chicago and Minneapolis.
The Springfield Republican tells its readers that Edward Danny Green, a favorite of the old Eastern league Springfield team, is now an inmate of the Camden county hospital at Blackwood, his condition traced to a pitched ball that struck him in 1912.
The Rockford Republic reports that "Danny" Green, formerly of the White Sox, is now an inmate of the Camden County Hospital at Blackwood, New Jersey, after being struck on the head by a pitched ball in a game in 1912.
The Washington Evening Star reports that Edward Danny Green, once among the leading outfielders in the major leagues, is an inmate of the Camden County Hospital at Blackwood, and recounts how Jim Callahan and two Camden policemen, Wright Cox and Al Keaser, arranged his care.
A column of short baseball notes in the Springfield Republican, closing with word that the White Sox have taken up a collection for Danny Green and are talking of playing a benefit game for him.
The New Orleans Item reports that Danny Green, long an idol at the West and South Side ball parks in Chicago, is confined with tuberculosis in the Cook county infirmary at Oak Forest and that hope of his recovery has been given up.
A brief Chicago dispatch in the Portland Oregonian reports that Danny Green, former outfielder of the Chicago National League club and later of the Chicago Americans, is seriously ill after two years of poor health.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Camden's 1906 season will run longer than ever, closing Saturday with the regular Camden team against a picked team of major leaguers. Receipts go to a benefit fund for Ike Toy, and an exhibition of association football will also be played.
The Philadelphia Inquirer previews the Ike Toy benefit game at the Camden grounds, where the regular Camden team will face a picked team of the "prides of Camden" then playing in the big leagues, including Conroy, the Gleasons, Green, Lennox, Steelman, Verga, Fischman and Bob Black.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Camden will close its 1906 season with a benefit game for Ike Toy, a popular Camden ball player of the early 1890s who is seriously ill. The Camden players will be opposed by a team of local men then playing in the various leagues, among them Wid Conroy, Kid Gleason, Danny Green and "Farmer" Steelman.
A Cincinnati Post notice records that Dan Green of Tom Burns' Orphans, a Camden man, was presented with a gold watch during the Chicago-Philadelphia series, and recalls Camden as the home of the Merritts.
A Philadelphia Inquirer notes column quotes Chicago manager Tom Burns praising "Danny" Green as a pacemaker, and adds that Green is a West Jersey boy who had played for years on teams along the eastern bank of the Delaware, including Bordentown and Camden.
Springfield pitcher Harry Dolan talks to a Boston Herald reporter about manager Tom Burns and the Springfield club, praising catcher Nichols, "Big Dan" Brouthers, and left fielder "Dan" Green, whom he calls one of the fastest players living.
The Springfield Republican's account of an Eastern League doubleheader at Buffalo, in which Springfield took the first game behind Dolan's pitching — Danny Green doubling to the left fence — and the Bisons evened matters by hammering Woods in the second.
The Springfield Republican reports the first practice of the season at Hampden park, where "Shorty" Fuller, Killeen and "Dan" Green were the only three Ponies to report, and manager Tom Burns put the squad through its paces.