“He can speak seven languages but he can’t hit in any of them,” a teammate once complained.
Morris"Moe" Berg, a multilingual Princeton University graduate who played major league baseball throughout the 1920s and '30s, lived a life of danger and intrigue as a U.S. military intelligence officer in Europe during World War II.American baseball player Morris"Moe" Berg, whose major league career spanned 15 unillustrious seasons on four different teams between 1923 and 1939, never advanced beyond the positions of backup catcher and substitute shortstop.
in Europe, for purposes of assessing the Nazis' nuclear capabilities. Some say he was ordered to assassinate Heisenberg, if necessary, to impede the Germans' atom bomb program. Berg’s father, Bernard Berg, a pharmacist in Newark, New Jersey, taught his son Hebrew and Yiddish. Moe, against his wishes, began playing baseball on the street at age four. His father disapproved and never once watched his son play. In Barringer High School, Moe learned Latin, Greek and French. He graduatedfrom Princeton, having added Spanish, Italian, German and Sanskrit to his linguistic quiver.
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