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Moe Berg:
While playing ball in Japan, Berg took "home movies" that were used to plan World War II bombing raids.
Third-String Catcher, All-Star Spy:
Ivy League-educated and fluent in several languages, Moe Berg was not your typical pro ballplayer. Grateful to the country that had welcomed his Jewish immigrant parents, he volunteered as a spy when World War II broke out.
On one mission, he slipped into occupied Norway and discovered a Nazi nuclear weapons plant. In Switzerland, Berg met with a top Nazi scientist, with orders to shoot him if Germany was close to building an atomic bomb. |