The gift is big. The idea is bigger. The name is the biggest.
The Abionce Andre Green Youth Center.
“He was a good baseball player. He probably would have been in the major leagues somewhere. He was a real good baseball player,” says A.J. Green, when asked what his older brother would be doing right now. “He was nine when he died. I was five.
“(He) would have been my best friend.”
He still is.
When A.J. Green decided he would restore his family’s old church at 1967 Summers Drive and transform it into a combination block of a Boys and Girls Club, a study hall, and a players’ lounge, he and his mother, Dora, both decided to adorn the building and the plan with A.