Christina-Taylor Green, the 9-year-old girl killed by a gunman who opened fire at an outdoor town hall event in northwest Tucson, Arizona, is the granddaughter of former Cubs general manager and former Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green.
Dallas Green is currently an executive advisor for the Phillies, the team World Series championship in 1980.
Christina-Taylor Green, 9 (born on September 11, 2001), was shot outside a Tucson Safeway grocery story as she went to see ‘blue dog’ Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords with an adult neighbor, who was also shot. The adult neighbor was shot four times and is still alive. Giffords was meeting with constituents at the Safeway parking lot at an outdoor Town Hall, known as ‘Congress on the Corner’. House Representative Gabrielle Giffords was among 13 people wounded and six people killed, including Arizona’s chief Federal Judge John M. Roll, and an aide for Giffords.
After the Tribune Company bought the Chicago Cubs from the Wrigley family in 1981, the company hired Green away from the Phillies after their 1981 season. Green was hired as executive vice president and general manager. His presence was quickly felt in the organization, as his slogan “Building a New Tradition” was a jab at the Cubs’ history of losing. He hired a number of coaches and scouts away from the Phillies, such as Lee Elia (Green’s first manager and college roommate at Delaware), John Vukovich (who remained on the Cubs’ staff throughout Green’s tenure), and Gordon Goldsberry (the team’s director of player development).
Green was the first Cubs executive to clash with the City of Chicago over lights in Wrigley Field. Green was a strong proponent of lights from the start of his tenure, but a city ordinance prohibited the Cubs from installing lights in the surrounding Lakeview neighborhood. As Dallas Green saw it, the issue wasn’t lights or no lights, but an issue of ‘Wrigley Field’ or move to the suburbs. Bluntly stating that “if there are no lights in Wrigley Field, there will be no Wrigley Field.” Dallas Green threatened to move the Cubs to a new stadium that would be built in Arlington Heights or Schaumburg.