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Granddaughter of former Yankees, Mets manager the youngest victim of Loughner shooting

TUCSON, Ariz. — They were two “peas in a pod.”

The youngest victim of the Arizona rampage — 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green — was a baseball-loving Mini-Me of her granddad, Dallas Green, a famed former Met and Yankee manager.

“She loved doing everything with her ‘Poo-Pop,’ ” her aunt Kim Green said. “He’s very distraught. They were peas in a pod. They liked to do so many things together.”

A former pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Dallas Green, 76, managed that team from 1979 to 1981. He managed the Yankees in 1989 and the Mets from 1993 to 1996.

Christina’s dad, John Green, said Dallas Green first heard about the rampage on TV while he and wife Sylvia were on vacation in the Caribbean.

They “didn’t know what was going on in Tucson,” John Green said, but his mom “had a premonition” and called him.

“I broke down on the phone and told her,” he said. “It was hard to tell her that Christina had been killed. She also broke down, and she couldn’t talk anymore.”

Christina’s parents and 11-year-old brother, also named Dallas, had been on the vacation but returned home early.

The death of Christina, born Sept. 11, 2001, has been overwhelming for her family.

“She was born on 9/11, so when you look at the bookends of her life, they were pretty tragic,” John Green said. “But everything in the middle was the best.”

He said that his little girl loved baseball — she was the only girl on her Little League team — dancing and horseback riding, and that, during the last election, she became engrossed in politics. She had just been elected to the student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School.

Family friend Susan Hileman knew about her interest in politics and took her along to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ meet-and-greet, where gunman Jared Lee Loughner went on a bloody rampage.

“I think they should execute him,” John Green said.

“She was at the wrong place at the wrong time. But I’m still very angry . . . someone would choose that venue to take out their anger. It is a cowardly way to handle their grievances.

“My wife is very forgiving, but I’m not.”

Green learned of the bloodbath from his wife, who “called and said there was an accident, but I thought it was a car accident.

“I didn’t know that it pertained to my daughter,” he said.

But at the hospital, “I saw her clothes were everywhere, and that’s when I had a feeling of dread.”

He feels nothing but disgust for the shooter.

“It would be a waste of millions of dollars” to keep him alive, he said. “They should use the money to help kids in school.”

The New York Yankees today offered their condolences and sympathy to Dallas Green and his family on the loss of Dallas’ granddaughter.

“The Steinbrenner family and the New York Yankees organization join the entire nation in mourning Christina and send our deepest condolences to Dallas Green and his family as they deal with this tremendous loss. This is a tragedy that is beyond words and our thoughts and prayers are with the Green family, as well as all of the affected families,” Hal Steinbrenner said today in a statement.

Tears rolling down his face, Green said he would always keep his favorite image of his daughter in his heart.

“I remember the way she would come up to me in the morning and say, ‘Daddy, Daddy! It’s time to get up!’ ” he said. “It was the way that she would say it and she would put her cheek on my cheek.”

douglas.montero@nypost.com