Resurrecting Green Death

Fenway Park's left field wall wasn't painted green until 1947. But before it became known as the Green Monster (somewhere around 1960), and after it had already been called simply "the Wall," players gave it another name:GREEN DEATH[...] the inviting leftfield wall, which Boston pitchers call, "green death" [...]--The New York Times, 4/28/1956[...] Fenway Park, with its Green Death in left field [...]--Boston Daily Globe, 4/13/1958[...] the left-field wall, the porch in left, Green Death, or whatever you want to call it [...]--Boston Globe, 12/24/1967Pitchers have long called the Fenway wall "the Green Death."--Sports Illustrated, 7/13/1970In the July 1965 issue of Baseball Digest, there's a long article about the wall. Joe Falls writes:Nobody knew it [in 1912] but a monster had been created...a massive monster that would spread a "green death" to all those who would attempt to bring it to its knees.The article focuses not on the p...