Stephen Rickert ’65

4 Weeks Ago

Berg’s Language Skills on the Diamond

Moe Berg, Princeton Class of 1923, was a classmate of my father, Van Dusen Rickert. They were fellow classics majors. Moe was an excellent shortstop at Princeton. When an opponent stood on second base, Moe spoke Latin to his second baseman to hide the strategy they were communicating. Once, during World War II, he came to dinner at our house in Washington, D.C.

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