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SteveS wrote:Born on this date in 1902, Moe Berg, major league baseball player and OSS/CIA spy ... the term "good field, no hit" was first used to describe the scholarly Berg who spoke at least seven languages, although a teammate once said that Moe couldn't hit in any of them ... selected for a post-season all-star team that traveled to Japan, there were many who questioned how he was chosen to play alongside the likes of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but while on the trip, he snuck away from the team and got onto the roof of a hotel from which he took photos of the Tokyo skyline ... those photos were used during the war to plan the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo ... Casey Stengel once said of Berg that he was the most interesting man to have ever played in the big leagues ... a truly interesting and heroic American. I read a biography many years ago, not a work of literature but the story would make ya proud.
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