Saturday, September 7, 2013

The catcher not in the Rye but who was a spy.

The catcher not in the Rye but who was a spy.Morris(Moe) Berg who had a most unlike live,for he was Jewish boy from Newark,N.J who was a professional baseball player,16 years in the majors and side he was a spy.
Moe was very good defensive catcher but couldn't hit,indeed,Casey Stengel once said of Berg,he could speak twelve languages but can't hit curve ball in any one of them. In 1934 a bunch of major ballplayer,like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig barnstorm Japan(played exhibition games) and Moe Berg went alone and people said what Moe Berg doing going on that trip,after all,he's barely 200 hitter and answer was well nobody handles pitchers like Moe Berg,but real reason he went was photograph Japanese military sights.
After leaving baseball,in 1941 went on fact finding mission to Latin America for Nelson Rockefeller,who was at the time coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for the State Dept.
In 1943 Berg join the OSS(forerunner of C.I.A) he parachuted into Yugoslavia to size up Titto partisan.He also enter Norway to fight the Nazi effort to develop a nuclear weapon from heavy water.
He died in 1973.

No comments:

Post a Comment