Joe Green (baseball, born 1878)

{{Short description|American baseball player and manager}}

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| image = Charles Joe Green.jpg

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| position = Outfielder

| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|7|26}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|9|18|1878|7|26}}

| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, US

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Independent Negro league

| debutyear = {{by|1902}}

| debutteam = Chicago Columbia Giants

| finalleague = Negro National League

| finalyear = {{by|1921}}

| finalteam = Chicago Giants

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As Player

• Chicago Clippers ({{by|1900}})
• Columbia Giants ({{by|1901}}–{{by|1902}})
• Chicago Union Giants ({{by|1903}}–{{by|1904}}, {{by|1908}})[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdZEI3RFkyYVhMNHM "Giants Beat the Locals" Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, IA, Saturday Evening, August 15, 1903, Page 1, Column 3]
• Leland Giants ({{by|1905}}–{{by|1906}}, {{by|1909}})[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdeVAyM2hiMDctVlE "Lelands Beat All-Stars" Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, IN, September 25, 1909, Page 7, Column 4]
• Chicago Giants ({{by|1910}}–{{by|1921}})[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdcnh1dUwxelpMUUE "Chicago Giants Will Raise Flag Sunday" Chicago Broad Ax, Chicago, IL, May 14, 1910, Page 2, Columns 4 and 5]

As Manager

• Chicago Giants ({{by|1912}}–{{by|1921}})
• Joe Green's Chicago Giants ({{by|1930}}–{{by|1940}}) [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdd3VnYXdpcVZ4bGc "Duffy Florals Meet Chicago Giants Sunday" Southtown Economist, Chicago, IL, Tuesday, May 20, 1930, Page 9, Column 2]

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Charles Albert "Joe" Green (July 26, 1878 – September 18, 1962) was an American baseball outfielder and manager in the pre-Negro leagues and the beginning of the Negro National League.

Green began his baseball career with the Chicago Clippers in 1900.[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdOGxTTXJvRVNWRmc "Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910]

In 1903, he played for the Columbia Giants, then the Chicago Union Giants, the Leland Giants, then spent most of the rest of his playing career for the Chicago Giants where he also managed the team. He took over the team after Frank Leland died on November 14, 1914.[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1Wcncq5-bHdam1ldHRVc2x6MjQ "Certificate and Record of Death of Frank Leland" Chicago Department of Health, Chicago, IL, November 14, 1914]

Later in his life, Green put his own name on the team, calling them "Joe Green's Chicago Giants," a team typically made up of popular ex-players of the Negro leagues and pre-Negro leagues.