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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.
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 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 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.
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.