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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.
Wright Cox, a Camden fireman and policeman for more than 40 years, died in Homeopathic Hospital in his 66th year. His funeral was set for the Schroeder Funeral Chapel at 538 Broadway, with interment in Bethel Cemetery.
Police stable sergeant Wright Cox recalls "Kid" Gleason as a curly-haired boy and later the scrappiest kid in the Third Ward, including an incident at a tavern at Second and Taylor Avenue.
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.
Boilermaker Crawford Smith had Policeman Ulie Andrews lock up a drunken namesake, Andy Smith, who put a brick through a front window of his home at 729 Carman Street; Recorder Stackhouse sentenced him to two months at the paper picking plant, and James Davis and James Carter got a month each. Camden Post-Telegram, November 30, 1910.
Wright Cox, an ex-fireman of Camden, was held in $600 bail by Justice Schmitz on a charge of assaulting suspended fireman Robert Colkett near Second and Federal streets, after an argument over the Third ward primary election results.