David Green

David Alejandro Green Casaya (December 4, 1960 – January 25, 2022) was a Nicaraguan professional baseball player who was an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 1981 and 1987, he spent parts of six seasons in the MLB. He was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals for five of those years, and he also spent one season with the San Francisco Giants.

Early life Green was born in Managua, Nicaragua, on December 4, 1960. He was one of ten children of Edward Green Sinclair and Bertha Casaya. Green was raised in a primarily Spanish-speaking home in the primarily Creole-speaking city of Bluefields. His sisters, Isabel and Carlota, were noted basketball players. Green is considered to have been born in 1960, although there has been some debate about his age. Green spent the 1980 season with the Class AA Holyoke Millers of the Eastern League. He batted .291 over 129 games, hitting 8 homers and driving in 67 runs.

For the 1981 season, Green was promoted to the Class AAA level as a member of the Springfield Redbirds. In 106 games with Springfield, he tallied a .270 batting average, 10 home runs, and 67 RBI. Green was the youngest player in the major leagues that year, and batted only .147 during 21 appearances for the Cardinals.

Green split the 1982 season between St. Louis and the Louisville Redbirds, who had relocated from Springfield. He batted .345 in 46 games with Louisville, while recording a .283 average in 76 appearances with the Cardinals. Green made 106 appearances for the Giants during the 1985 season. He posted a .248 batting average, 5 home runs, and 20 runs batted in.

Later life After retiring from professional baseball, Green worked for the dog-grooming business of a friend. He was later employed in security around 2010. He was married, and had a daughter from a previous relationship during the 1980s. He was 61.

Involuntary manslaughter In January 1995, Green was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in a car crash in suburban Country Club Hills, Mo. According to the Post-Dispatch, a passenger in the car Green struck, Gladys Yount, 85, of Jennings, Mo., suffered a fractured pelvis in the accident and died of a heart attack two hours later. Green was charged with involuntary manslaughter and served six months in jail, the Post-Dispatch reported.