THE SPY

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Today’s story is about a catcher that became an international spy during WWII.

Moe Berg is known as the brainiest guy to ever play the game of baseball.

He was also one of the most shadowy characters the game has ever seen.

Even Berg’s closest family and friends said they felt like they never knew him completely.

Nicholas Dawidoff, who wrote a biography about Moe, described him as “half James Bond, half Babe Ruth.”

Casey Stengel described him as “the strangest man ever to play baseball.”