My favorite Dallas Green story, and one that accurately illustrates his personality, on and off the baseball field, took place when he was pitching for the University of Delaware, and the Blue Hens played an exhibition game against a traveling team of former major leaguers that included Bill Nicholson, the enormously-strong slugger from Maryland's Eastern Shore who had finished his career with the Phillies.
Green's manager instructed him to throw breaking pitches to Nicholson, who was a noted fastball hitter. This did not sit well with Green, who admired his own fastball and did not like the idea of getting beat by his second-best pitch.