Pumpsie Green
US baseball player
Died when: 85 years 263 days (1028 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green (October 27, 1933 – July 17, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played with the Boston Red Sox (1959–62) and New York Mets (1963).
A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, he was listed as 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and 175 lb (79 kg).Green had the distinction of being the first black player to play for the Red Sox, the last pre-expansion major-league club to integrate.
In his Boston tenure, he was used mostly as a pinch runner or day-off replacement for infielders Pete Runnels and Don Buddin.
Green made his debut on July 21, 1959, pinch-running in a 2–1 loss against the Chicago White Sox.
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