Was mo berg gay

Moe Berg is not exactly a household name among baseball fans. The catcher played 15 seasons for five different teams in the s and s, with a cumulative batting average of.

The Catcher was a Spy ★

His best weapon was his brain, as he was a heady backstop recruited by his manager to serve as a coach for the Boston Red Sox in his final few seasons. What makes Berg different from the typical baseball player is that brain. He knew ten languages, graduated from Princeton University and got a law degree from Columbia University.

If Berg determined that it was and that the Germans were close, he was to kill Heisenberg. If this sounds like movie material, it is. For example, because Berg was a lifetime bachelor, the movie hints was mo berg gay that Berg was homosexual. I call this [documentary] the real story.

He has a sense of humor, women like him. Yet he was a loner. Despite his law degree and offers to coach in the major leagues after the war, Berg elected to live with his brother, Dr. Samuel Berg, in New Jersey. He spent the rest of his life unemployed, living off the goodwill of family and friends.

When people asked Berg what he did for a living, he would slowly draw his finger to his lips as if to silence both the question and answer, giving the impression that he was still a spy, which he was not. Berg died on May 29,of an aortic aneurism. The movie is available on Hulu for free if you have a subscription and to rent on Amazon Prime.

By Matt Sieger msieger thereporter. More in Sports.