Moe Berg
Nominated by: Dave Toback
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Despite being an average “Good field, no hit” catcher for 15 years, Moe Berg is one of the most famous (or infamous in card collecting circles as being expensive) players of all time. He graduated from Princeton and then Columbia Law, and then served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Service (what became the CIA) during WWII for, among other reasons, speaking lots of languages. My favorite is that during the War this nice Jewish boy from Harlem and Jersey went to Italy and secretly learned about the Nazi nuclear program, and eventually was awarded the Medal of Freedom. When Casey Stengel describes you as “the strangest man to ever play baseball” you know you have a character on your hands.
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