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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.
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.