Joe Greene (baseball)
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| Joe Greene | |||
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| Catcher | |||
| Born: October 17, 1911 Stone Mountain, Georgia |
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| Died: Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Stone Mountain, Georgia |
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| 1932, for the Atlanta Black Crackers | |||
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| 1948, for the Cleveland Buckeyes | |||
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James Elbert "Joe" Greene (October 17, 1911 – July 19, 1989) was an American catcher in Negro league baseball. He played between 1932 and 1948.[1]
Greene served with the 92nd Division in the US Army as an anti-tank gunner between 1943 and 1945, in both Algiers and Italy.[2] When his company entered Milan, they were given the task of removing the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, who had been publicly hanged in the Piazzale Loreto on the 29th of April 1945.[2]
References
- ↑ "Joe Greene Negro League Statistics & History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)
- Negro League Baseball Players Association
