In Person: Baseball's Little WWII Secret CANCELLED

No one knew him. He never married and had no close friends. Even his brother and sister found him mysterious. Baseball’s spy gained fame at Princeton as a shortstop on the baseball diamond. That fame provided the opportunity to join the Brooklyn Dodgers, then known as the Robins. During the next nineteen seasons, he played for several major league teams but was often a bench warmer with a .243 batting average.

The mystery intensified when in 1934 Moe Berg joined the traveling major league All-Star team including Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. One of their destinations was Tokyo, Japan. There were other international trips that could leverage his familiarity with 16 languages. He would quietly retire from the U.S. Office of Strategic Service in 1947. Join us and learn more about baseballs quirky catcher. He was an OSS agent whose secret photographs of Tokyo helped the Doolittle Raiders and helped evaluate the Nazi atom bomb project.

John Cilio is a historical storyteller, author and researcher who has brought historical stories back to life for over 15 years. A member of the Organization of American Historians and the Association for the Study of Connecticut History, he retired from IBM corporate marketing communications. He has published seven historical books and numerous articles for national and regional periodicals. His book about helicopters, whose foreword was written by a son of Igor Sikorsky, is a listed reference source at the Smithsonian Institution. 

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