Major League Baseball Player, Manager, Executive. As a manager, he guided the Philadelphia Phillies to their first World Series title in 1980. Born George Dallas Green, he attended Conrad High School in Delaware. He played collegiate baseball and basketball at the University of Delaware, prior to being signed as an amateur free agent by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1955. For eight seasons (1960 to 1967), he was a pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators and New York Mets. He made his Major League debut with the Phillies on June 18, 1960 and pitched in 23 games that season. In 185 career, regular season games, he compiled a 20 win, 22 loss record, with a lifetime 4,26 ERA, in 562 innings-pitched. After retiring as a player, he served as assistant farm director, before advancing to Director of Player Development and Scouting Director. In August of 1979, he succeeded Danny Ozark as manager of the Phillies (1979 to 1981). During his tenure as the Phillies' manager, he became known for his bluntness and "old school" style of handling players, as he helmed such stars as Pete Rose, Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton and Tug McGraw. Following the Phillies' World Series title in 1980, he led Philadelphia to a playoff berth during the strike-shortened 1981 season. The result was a series loss to the Montreal Expos in the National League Division Series. In October of 1981, he was named General Manager of the Chicago Cubs (1982 to 1987) and wasted no time building that team into a contender. Among one of the Cubs' significant acquisitions during Green's tenure was Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg. Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux was drafted in 1984 and developed during Green's era. In 1984, the Cubs experienced their first postseason berth since 1945, when they captured the National League Eastern Division Title. They would be denied a trip to the World Series, when they were defeated by the San Diego Padres during the National League Championship Series. Green would go on to managerial stints with the New York Yankees (1989) and New York Mets (1993 to 1996), before returning to the Philadelphia Phillies to serve as a Senior Advisor to the General Manager. In January of 2011, he suffered a personal tragedy when his granddaughter Christina (his son John's daughter) was killed, along with other victims, during a shooting at an event in Arizona, which left US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded. In 2013, his autobiography "The Mouth that Roared" was published. Green was inducted into the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2006, he was added to the Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame. He died of complications from kidney disease.