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bet you never knew the story of....

PostSat Feb 01, 2014 12:08 am

moe berg? wiki ole moe and his story is amazing. he hit a career .243 with a whopping 6 hr's yet he's in cooperstown. find out how and why?
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Re: bet you never knew the story of....

PostSat Feb 01, 2014 7:16 am

the spy who never was.....................
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Re: bet you never knew the story of....

PostSat Feb 01, 2014 9:42 pm

the spy who was! his congressional medal of honor is in cooperstown. he's even got his own page on the CIA website!
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Re: bet you never knew the story of....

PostSun Feb 02, 2014 11:20 am

I've uploaded Moe Berg's 1941 article "Pitchers and Catchers" from The Atlantic Monthly.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IM8lQb7jvvNgZCIWSWkoPipVSQ8fZIkhqAey_RiVQso/edit

This remarkable article should be required reading not only for all ATG SOM players, but for all baseball players.

Enjoy!

Bill
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Re: bet you never knew the story of....

PostMon Feb 03, 2014 8:57 pm

Thanks for that post, George... very interesting article, written in his very academic voice. I wrote a story on him for a test prep book I authored a few years ago. Fascinating character.

Check out his biography... The Catcher Was a Spy

According to numerous sources, he was awarded the medal of freedom (not the Congressional Medal of Honor). Available info is that he either declined it or accepted it and then returned it. Regardless, it's not at the Hall of Fame, though his baseball card is said to be in the CIA's "eyes-only" museum.

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