Dallas Green, the Cubs general manager and executive vice president from 1982 to 1987, died Wednesday, a Phillies team official confirmed.

Green was 82.

Green, who brought Ryne Sandberg, Dennis Eckersley and Rick Sutcliffe to the Cubs, also managed the Phillies to the World Series title in 1980.

Green was one of the first advocates for installing lights at Wrigley Field and once famously said, “If there are no lights in Wrigley Field, there will be no Wrigley Field.”

Green threatened to move the team to the northwest suburbs as a result. Just before Green resigned as general manager and team president in 1987, when the Cubs finished last in the National League East and accused the team of quitting, then-Chicago Mayor Harold Washington approved an ordinance allowing lights to be installed in 1988.

Under Green, the Cubs made their first playoff appearance since 1945 in 1984.

Chicago Tribune