Moe Berg

Moe Berg

Morris Berg (March 2, 1902 – May 29, 1972) was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He played 15 seasons in the major leagues, almost entirely for four American League teams, though he was never more than an average player and was better known for being "the brainiest guy in baseball." Casey Stengel once described Berg as "the strangest man ever to play baseball." Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, and he spoke several languages and regularly read ten newspapers a day. His reputation as an intellectual was fueled by his successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information Please, in which he answered questions about the etymology of words and names from Greek and Latin, historical events in Europe and the Far East, and ongoing international conferences. As a spy working for the government of the United States, Berg traveled to Yugoslavia to gather intelligence on resistance groups which the U.S. government was considering supporting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moe Berg has received more than 2,978,763 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Moe Berg is the 1,435th most popular military personnel (down from 1,350th in 2019), the 5,555th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,500th in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Military Personnel.