Joe Green (baseball, born 1897)

Baseball records do not indicate that Green played minor league baseball.^[1] He appeared in a single major league game, for the Philadelphia Athletics on July 2, 1924.^[2] The Altoona Tribune noted that Green had been playing for a semi-professional team associated with the Strawbridge and Clothier Store of Philadelphia as an outfielder.^[3] 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.^[2] Green's at bat came in the bottom of the second inning with the Yankees holding a 3–0 lead; facing pitcher Herb Pennock with two outs and runners at first and third, Green hit into a force out at second base, ending the inning.^[4] Green did not play defensively, as he was replaced by reliever Bob Hasty, who pitched the final seven innings for the Athletics.^[2] Pennock pitched a complete game as the Yankees won, 10–1.^[2] By mid-July, Green was back playing with the Strawbridge and Clothier Store semi-professional team.^[5]

Green was born in 1897 in Philadelphia.^[6] His draft registration card of September 1918 indicates that he was employed at the Budd Company in Philadelphia as a mechanical draftsman.^[7] Green died in 1972 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and was interred in Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.^[6]

• Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet