Joe Green

Joseph Henry Green (September 17, 1897 – February 2, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who made a single appearance with the 1924 Philadelphia Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at and , he batted and threw right-handed.

Biography

Baseball records do not indicate that Green played minor league baseball. He appeared in a single major league game, for the Philadelphia Athletics on July 2, 1924. With the Athletics facing the New York Yankees in the second game of a home doubleheader at Shibe Park, Green entered the game as a pinch hitter, batting for starting pitcher Fred Heimach. Green did not play defensively, as he was replaced by reliever Bob Hasty, who pitched the final seven innings for the Athletics. By mid-July, Green was back playing with the Strawbridge and Clothier Store semi-professional team.

Green was born in 1897 in Philadelphia. Green died in 1972 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and was interred in Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.