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Moe Berg

American baseball player and spy (1902–1972)

This article is about the American baseball player. For the Canadian singer/songwriter, see Moe Berg (musician).

Baseball player

Moe Berg

1933 Goudeybaseball card of Berg while with the Washington Senators

Catcher
Born:(1902-03-02)March 2, 1902
New York City, U.S.
Died: May 29, 1972(1972-05-29) (aged 70)
Belleville, New Jersey, U.S.

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

June 27, 1923, for the Brooklyn Robins
September 1, 1939, for the Boston Red Sox
Batting average.243
Hits441
Runs batted in206
Stats at Baseball Reference 

Morris Berg (March 2, 1902 – May 29, 1972) was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He played 15 seasons in the major leagues, almost entirely for four American League teams, though he was never more than an average player and was better known for being "the brainiest guy in

Moe Berg

Morris "Moe" Berg (2 de marzo de 1902-29 de mayo de 1972) fue un beisbolista de Estados Unidos de las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol, y que más adelante fue un espía durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Aunque jugó 15 temporadas en las Grandes Ligas para 4 equipos diferentes, Berg nunca fue más que un jugador del montón, usado en la defensa, y generalmente era más conocido como "el hombre más inteligente del béisbol"[1]​ que por sus logros deportivos. Casey Stengel lo describió una vez como "el hombre más extraño que haya jugado al béisbol".[2]

Se graduó de la Universidad de Princeton y Columbia Law School, hablaba varios idiomas y leía varios periódicos al día. Su reputación aumentó con sus apariciones exitosas en el programa radial de preguntas y respuestas "Information, Please!", en donde respondió preguntas sobre la etimología de palabras del griego y el latín, eventos históricos de Europa, de Medio Oriente y de conferencias internacionales.[3]

Como espía, viajó a Yugoslavia a obtener información sobre grupos de resistencia que los Estados

"He [Moe Berg] bluffs his way up onto the roof of the hospital, the tallest building in Tokyo at the time. And from underneath his kimono he pulls out a movie camera. He proceeds to take a series of photos panning the whole setting before him, which includes the harbor, the industrial sections of Tokyo, possibly munitions factories and things like that. Then he puts the camera back under his kimono and leaves the hospital with these films," says Nicholas Dawidoff, a Berg biographer.

Moe Berg has long enjoyed a reputation as the most shadowy player in the history of baseball. Earning more notoriety for being a frontline spy than for being a backup catcher, it is difficult to separate fact from fiction in Berg's undercover career. Just Berg being a spy begs the question: How much of the fiction might have been used as cover?

In 1934, five years before he retired as a player, Berg made his second trip to Japan as part of a traveling major league All-Star team. One might wonder what the seldom-used catcher, a .251 hitter that season, was doing playing with the likes of Babe Ru

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