Charles Albert "Joe" Green (July 26, 1878 – September 18, 1962) was an American

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to c ...

and

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

in the pre-

Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

and the beginning of the Negro National League. Green began his baseball career with the Chicago Clippers in 1900."Frank Lelands' Chicago Giants Base Ball Club" Fraternal Printing Company, 1910
/ref> In 1903, he played for the Columbia Giants, then the Chicago Union Giants, the

Leland Giants The Leland Giants, originally the Chicago Union Giants, were a Negro league baseball team that competed independently during the first decade of the 20th century. The team was formed via a merge of the Chicago Unions and the Chicago Columbia Gia ...

, 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 Frank C. Leland (1869 – November 14, 1914) was an American baseball player, field manager and club owner in the Negro leagues. Early life and career beginnings Leland was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, ...

died on November 14, 1914."Certificate and Record of Death of Frank Leland" Chicago Department of Health, Chicago, IL, November 14, 1914
/ref> 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

and pre-Negro leagues.

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