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Some 1400 Thirteenth Ward children boarded buses at Louis Street and Whitman Avenue in July 1941 for Republican committeeman Edward Garrity's annual outing to see the Athletics play the Chicago White Sox at Shibe Park.
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.