Moe Berg
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Moe Berg Law '30, was a Major League Baseball catcher from 1923 to 1939. In his career he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, the Washington Senators, and the Boston Red Sox.
Later, during World War II he served with the OSS (a government organization which would eventually morph into the CIA), aiding and assessing resistance groups in Europe. He also spent several months in Japan to take photographs and videos. These would be used with to plan the Doolittle Raid.
He studied at Columbia Law School while simultaneously playing professional baseball. An undergraduate alumnus of Princeton University, he regularly read 10 newspapers everyday. He was also multilingual; it was said of him "he could speak eight languages, and couldn't hit in any of them."
His biography, authored by Nicholas Dawidoff, is entitled The Catcher was a Spy.
