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	Moe Berg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berg spoke several languages and was sometimes called "the brainiest guy in baseball" by admiring newspaper sportswriters, who featured him in their columns far more than was called for by his sports prowess.
		Moe Berg was born the third and last child of Bernard Berg, a pharmacist, and Rose Tashker, a homemaker, both Jewish, in the Harlem section of New York City, New York, a few blocks from the Polo Grounds.
		Moe Berg died on May 29, 1972 at age 70 from injuries sustained in a fall at home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moe_Berg (3313 words)

	Moe Berg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Berg could speak several languages and was sometimes called "the brainiest guy in baseball" by admiring newspaper sports writers, who featured him in their columns far more than was called for by his sports prowess.
		Berg was born in New York City to a Jewish family.
		Berg graduated Princeton University in 1923, after majoring in Modern Languages and playing brilliantly on their baseball team.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/mo/moe_berg.html (653 words)

	ESPN Classic - Moe Berg: Catcher and spy
		Morris Berg was born in a cold-water tenement on East 121st Street in Manhattan on March 2, 1902, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents -- Bernard, a druggist, and Rose.
		Berg, according to one biography, was prone to blunders: getting caught trying to infiltrate an aircraft factory during his training, dropping his gun into a fellow passenger's lap, and being recognized by wearing his O.S.S.-issue watch.
		Berg's assessment of the situation was that Germany was not close to having a nuclear bomb, and there was never an attempt to kill Heisenberg.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Berg_Moe.html (1245 words)

	MOE BERG
		Berg's desire was to study in Paris, but he didn't have the funds for such a trip, but when the Brooklyn Dodgers, impressed by Berg's ballplaying acumen, offered him $5,000 to play half a season, he jumped at it.
		Moe Berg's greatest contribution to the war effort was finding several German secrets in the construction of the atomic bomb.
		Berg passed himself as a Swiss graduate student to the SS agents and sat in the front row.
	www.geocities.com /dbsociety/player/bergm.html (1141 words)

	Moe Berg (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moe Berg (born Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the rock group The Pursuit of Happiness.
		Berg has been published as a writer, releasing his first book, a short story collection called The Green Room, in 2000.
		While he currently works mainly as a record producer for young bands, he also works as a DJ on Saturday nights at The Tap, a bar in Toronto known to be a haunt for local musicians, on Bloor Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moe_Berg_(musician) (248 words)

	NOVA Online \| Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies \| Moe Berg
		Moe Berg played a total of 15 major league baseball seasons with the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Boston Red Sox, and the Washington Senators, yet he made few accomplishments as a batter or on the field.
		Berg determined that the possibility of a Nazi atom bomb was distant, and the assassination plot was called off.
		Berg's biographers have often pointed out that he was a sloppy spy, famously forgetting to take off his OSS issue watch before undertaking secret missions abroad and dropping his gun at inopportune moments.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venona/dece_berg.html (656 words)

	The Baseball Reliquary - Moe Berg
		Wedged between Lou Berberet and Augie Bergamo in the Baseball Encyclopedia, Morris "Moe" Berg spent 17 years in professional baseball as a player and coach and was perhaps the most enigmatic and cerebral figure the game has ever known.
		Berg became a distinguished scholar whose intellectual capacity was truly boundless.
		Berg was idolized by the Japanese because of his mastery of their language and broad understanding of their culture.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /berg.htm (928 words)

	The Catcher Was a Spy (Summer 1995)
		Moe Berg was a career third string catcher with the Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and Boston Red Sox during the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s.
		Berg's eccentricities were tolerated by the ultra conservative world of baseball because he had the reputation of being brilliant, a reputation which was so close to being accurate that the exaggerations of a friendly sporting press were readily accepted.
		Not only was Berg able to find free accommodations and meals from his friends, he was able to exploit his charm for free transportation, free coffee, and free newspapers from petty businessmen and conductors who were fascinated by him and willing to accept his conversation as full payment.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9596/IssueS/ents/catcher.html (1061 words)

	ESPN Classic - Spy Notes More Info on Moe Berg
		Berg's mother reveled in his baseball career, but his father thought it was frivolous and wanted him to concentrate on a law career.
		Berg was a favorite of sportswriters and to them he exaggerated his linguistic skills, sometimes claiming to speak as many as 27 languages fluently.
		Berg read half a dozen or more newspapers a day, and, when he fell behind, he stacked them neatly where he was living until he could get to them - sometimes for weeks at a time.
	www.espn.go.com /classic/s/addbergmoe.html (840 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		Moe Berg was destined to be not a slayer of dragons but a maverick who went beyond the borders of ordinary life.
		Morris Berg, allegedly master of 12 languages, was born in a cold-water tenement on East 121st Street in Manhattan on March 2, 1902, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Bernard Berg, a druggist, and Rose Tashker.
		Moe was a proud man. When he was asked to write his biography, he angrily refused when his co-author mistakenly thought he was Moe of the Three Stooges.
	bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=756&pid=962 (3180 words)

	Moe Berg
		Moe’s hitting was below par and he was sent to the minors after the 1924 season.
		Moe hit.287 in 1929 and received votes for Most Valuable Player but in 1930 he seriously injured his knee, ending his career as a full-time player.
		Berg then learned that the Nazis had an atomic research center at Duisberg, Germany, and it too was bombed.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/MBerg.html (728 words)

	the pursuit of happiness
		Moe Berg, the singer/songwriter/creative genius behind The Pursuit of Happiness, grew up a fan of pure popsters like the Beatles and the Raspberries, but undoubtedly his biggest influence was 70’s rock icon Todd Rundgren.
		Berg paid tribute to his all-time favorite sports hero with the sing-along-like foot thumper "Gretzky Rocks", and in "I Should Know", he admitted that losing stature in the rock hierarchy could be a frightening experience.
		A final, welcome addition to the package is the Moe Berg commentary in the extensive liner notes, where he shares his thoughts on each album, as well as some amusing anecdotes of his experiences along the way.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Studio/2040/0200tpoh.html (2869 words)

	Morris "Moe" Berg
		A Major League Baseball catcher and shortstop with five teams between 1923 and 1939, Moe Berg was a solid journeyman player with a lifetime batting average of.243.
		Berg’s assignment was to be a morale builder for American troops stationed in South America and teach baseball to the locals— and get a firsthand feel for Germany’s influence among America’s Latin neighbors.
		It was Berg the athlete who inspired a baseball scout in 1922 to coin the classic remark “Good field, no hit.” He began as a shortstop but enjoyed most of his career behind the plate.
	www.jewishsports.net /PillarAchievementBios/MorrisBerg.htm (674 words)

	USNews.com: Moe Berg: Catcher, spy
		Berg, the son of Jewish immigrants, was an unlikely spy.
		Berg traveled Europe in high style, charming physicists into telling him what they knew of the activities of their German colleagues.
		Berg spent the last 25 years of his life as a vagabond, showing up at friends' houses unannounced, expecting to be fed. He never owned a house, rented an apartment, or learned to drive, and he held no job after the OSS.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/030127/27popular.moeberg.htm (536 words)

	Morris "Moe" Berg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Walter Johnson, one of the major league's greatest pitchers, thought Moe was one of the major league's better catchers.
		Moe knew 12 languages and in 1941 was appointed "goodwill ambassador" to South America.
		During World War II, Berg broadcast to the Japanese and became a counterintelligence agent in Europe.
	jewishsportshalloffame.com /Hebrew/JSHF/Morris_Berg.html (181 words)

	Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers - Moe Berg
		Berg was a catcher of average ability who played 15 years in the majors, in 1923 with the Brooklyn Robins (Dodgers), and from 1926 through 1939 with four other teams: Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals (Senators), and the Boston Red Sox.
		Moe graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School and studied at the Sorbonne in France.
		Some may have wondered why a third-string catcher like Berg went to Japan in the early 1930s with the likes of Ruth and Gehrig on an all-star traveling team.
	members.tripod.com /bb_catchers/catchers/berg.htm (410 words)

	Moe Berg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Berg’s mission was to talk to the Communist partisan leader Joseph Broz, who called himself Tito, and to also talk to the Serb partisan leader Draza Mihailovich.
		Moe Berg had studied enough physics before he traveled to Norway to recognize that the German effort was far from complete.
		Berg was to shoot and kill Heisenberg if he believed that Heisenberg could shortly produce the bomb.
	www.jbuff.com /c101404.htm (1207 words)

	Forgotten History - Moe Berg - Addict Baseball and Football Forum
		Casey Stengel, known as an odd ball himself, called Moe Berg, "the strangest man ever to play baseball." Berg was a shortstop at Princeton University where he used to bark out his instructions to the second baseman in Latin.
		Berg was able to determine where the German plants for the research were and that they had been bombed by the allies.
		Berg orders were to kill him if necessary but Heisenberg implied that Germany was behind the United States in the race for the bomb.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/showthread.php?t=53533 (1071 words)

	Fiction: Agent Provocateur, by Alexander Irvine, illustration by Ben Strickland
		I was Moe Berg's biggest fan in 1940, even though he'd sort of officially retired at the end of the '39 season.
		Berg stayed on with the Red Sox as a warmup catcher and a kind of team guru, but never played a game after 1939, and by the time the war heated up, he was Agent Berg of the OSS.
		Moe Berg was there, posing as a Swiss student, an Arab businessman, or a French merchant, depending on whose account you believe.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020401/agent_provocateur.shtml (4204 words)

	TPOH/Moe Berg Biography
		Moe was a founding member of The Pursuit of Happiness in 1986.
		This time Moe was behind the board co-producing the record with Aubrey Winfield.
		Moe's work as a producer includes records with The Monoxides, Jennifer Foster, The Grace Babies, Claudia's Cage and most recently, Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rock Stars.
	www.maplemusic.com /artists/mbe/bio.asp (412 words)

	Amazon.com: The Catcher Was a Spy : The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg (Vintage): Books: Nicholas Dawidoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Nicholas Dawidoff portrays him, Berg was a bizarre man who spent the final 25 years of his life essentially homeless, living off the charity of friends and family, trading his stories of pre-war baseball and wartime espionage for the offer of clean clothes, hot meals, and warm water for a bath.
		Moe Berg (1902-1972) was a talented linguist, ballplayer, and U.S. espionage agent for the OSS (forerunner of the CIA) before and during World War II and briefly for the CIA after the war.
		Moe Berg is truly one of the most interesting, and enigmatic, characters in sports history.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679762892?v=glance (2210 words)

	simon metz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Berg, who was thoroughly and completely unprepared, embarassed himself to no end for upwards of 35 sweaty, uncomfortable minutes.
		Berg freely admits that, while he was aware of Ms.
		Deneuve's status as a film legend, he had never seen any of her work, other than 20 minutes of the movie she was out promoting, "Les Voleurs", which he fast forwarded through prior to dozing off for the two hours preceding his scheduled appointment with the actress.
	simonmetz.blogspot.com (1931 words)

	Moe Berg Lawyer-Catcher for the Washington Senators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Moe Berg wasa colorful figure who led a fascinating and most original life.
		A few yearslater, for example, when America was bombed into World War II, Moe Bergentered the world of diplomacy and became a spy for the Office of StrategicServices and the Office of Inter-American Affairs.
		On top of it all, Moe Berg could be a charmer (when he wasn't invadingtaxicabs) and possessed a good sense of humor.
	senators.org /berg2.html (294 words)

	Moe Berg Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Moe Berg was born on Sunday, March 2, 1902, in New York, New York.
		Berg was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 27, 1923, with the Brooklyn Robins.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Moe Berg baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=bergmo01 (292 words)

	Judaism.com - The Catcher Was a Spy The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg By: Nicholas Dawidoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Moe Berg is the only major-league ballplayer whose baseball card is on display in the headquarters of the CIA.
		In that capacity, Berg was once assigned to tail the Nazi physicist Werner Heisenberg and assassinate him if that would prevent the Nazis from developing an atom bomb.
		But Dawidoff's most extraordinary achievement is to penetrate the layers of Berg's self-created cover and reveal the complex and profoundly lonely man who consorted with Joe DiMaggio, Wild Bill Donovan, and Albert Einstein but never married and remained an enigma to his own family.
	www.judaism.com /display.asp?UniqueTitleNumber=73024 (264 words)

	American Heroes
		Morris Berg may have been only a third string, part-time baseball player for 17 seasons but he was certainly one of the most intelligent men ever to wear a major league uniform.
		Berg was an alumnus of three universities and read and spoke 12 different languages.
		After Berg retired from baseball in 1939, he worked in the Office of Strategic Service (CIA), his primary objective was to determine Germany's Nuclear potential.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=150 (2067 words)

	WHO THE HELL IS MOE BERG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, to the Japanese, who had zealously adopted baseball from America, Moe Berg was a baseball hero equal in stature to Ruth and Gehrig.
		A journeyman American catcher, Moe Berg had emigrated to Japan early in the century and had become a national idol because of his ability to speak Japanese, his knowledge of the culture, and his willingness to teach the subtleties of this new American game throughout the country.
		Americans had not seen Moe Berg traveling around the countryside teaching kids to play baseball; he did not occupy any role in their common memory.
	web.pdx.edu /~tothm/Manuscripts/moe_berg.htm (3254 words)

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