Joe Greene (baseball)

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Joe Greene
Catcher
Born: (1911-10-17)October 17, 1911
Stone Mountain, Georgia, U.S.
Died: July 19, 1989(1989-07-19) (aged 77)
Stone Mountain, Georgia, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
debut
1932, for the Atlanta Black Crackers
Last appearance
1948, for the Cleveland Buckeyes
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Teams
Career highlights and awards

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 April 29, 1945.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Joe Greene Black Baseball Leagues Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  2. ^ a b Riley, James A (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. p. 976. ISBN 0786709596.