Moe Berg

ABOUT MOE BERG

Baseball catcher became better known as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA.

Able to speak Japanese, he was chosen to the 1934 U.S. All-Star team that played in Tokyo; and during the trip took footage of the city skyline that later was used in the WW II Doolittle bombing raid.

He was a brilliant student, able to speak multiple languages, and was said to be able to speak seven languages, but his lifetime batting average was .243; how me made the All-Star team was never formally disclosed.

He was born to a Russian-Jewish family in Manhattan, New York. His father was a pharmacist.

He was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, along with other notable baseball players like Shawn Green .