Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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We miss you, Danny. I just now found this obituary. Here is a tribute I posted on Facebook about your memory: Here is my post from Facebook: Sad news. Danny Green from Maryland passed away. Danny's contributions to pool was multi-faceted. He was most definitely an action player, a tournament soldier on occasion, a regional tour founder, and a great cue mechanic. Danny also was a cue maker who honed his skills under the tutelage Teddy Harris of Ted Harris Custom Billiard Cues, another native Marylander.
Danny created the Planet Pool Tour in the '90s. I remember attending a tournament in the early 2000s in Maryland where some stranger wearing alligator boots won the event, which I later found out was Scotty Townsend. I attended many of those Planet Pool Tour events in Maryland and the surrounding region. Danny eventually passed over the reins to local pool aficionados who, thankfully, kept the Planet Pool Tour going strong for many years to come.
Finding a photo of Danny is difficult because he liked to fly under the radar and go on the road playing pool. He enjoyed being incognito in the pool world, so much so that he deactivated his Facebook page. He was an old-school kind of road warrior and loved every minute of it. And make no mistake about it; Danny could play. I remember the time he and Max defeated Keith McCready in Silver Spring. It was fast and furious and only hurt a little bit for Team McCready.
I took a hiatus from pool and then reemerged after meeting Keith. We ran into Danny at Bill and Billie's in Glen Burnie—or I guess it changed its name to Jack and Jill's by that time. A proud Danny Green shared with Keith that he was included in the book "Playing Off the Rail," somehow credentialing his pool notoriety. It was kind of sweet to hear him talking about it, and unbeknownst to Keith on that day, Danny pulled me aside to give me sage advice about the pool world I was about to enter. I was a little green.
A short time ago, Danny was involved in a brutal car accident, and he suffered major injuries to his leg which he had not recovered from. Even though I hadn't seen him in a year or two, we spoke on the phone a few times recently. Danny Green will always be one of my good friends in the pool world. We've both come a long way from the early days hanging out on the rail, laughing it up, sharing pool secrets.
Save me a seat on the rail in heaven, Danny. You will be missed. With my love, Jennie and Keith
