> > > > Baseball Story: Who Was Moe Berg The Catcher? > Moe Berg: A second-rate baseball player but a first-rate spy. > > When baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on tour in baseball-crazy Japan in 1934, some fans wondered why a third-string catcher named Moe Berg was included. > > The answer was simple: Berg was a US spy. Speaking 15 languages—including Japanese—Moe Berg had two loves: baseball and spying. > > In Tokyo , garbed in a kimono, Berg took flowers to the daughter of an American diplomat being treated in St. Luke’s Hospital--the tallest building in the Japanese capital. He never delivered the flowers.The ball-player ascended to the hospital roof and filmed key features: the harbor, military installations, railway yards, etc. > > Eight years later, General Jimmy Doolittle studied Berg’s films in planning his spectacular raid on Tokyo . >
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:58:12 +0000
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