Teaching Relativity (and Baseball)

The letter about Einstein, Yogi Berra, and misquotation brings to mind another story, and another MLB catcher: Princeton’s own Moe Berg 1923. 

In Berg’s recollection of a meeting with Einstein, which appears in Nicholas Dawidoff’s The Catcher Was a Spy, Einstein told him, “Mr. Berg, you teach me baseball and I will teach you the theory of relativity,” and then, after a pause, decided, “No, we must not. You will learn relativity faster than I will learn baseball.”