What about Moe Berg, Class 1923? Tigers’ baseball captain his senior year, language wizard, future major leaguer, and World War II spy for the OSS. He turned down the Medal of Freedom, now the Presidential Medal of Freedom but created by President Truman as the highest honor given to civilians during WWII. After Berg’s death in 1972 his sister Ethel accepted the medal and donated it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Two biographies were written about Berg in 1974 and 1994, and a Hollywood movie, starring Paul Rudd, was made in 2018. The Baseball Hall of Fame mounted an exhibit on Berg the same year. Finally, two of Berg’s baseball cards are said to be on display at the CIA Museum in Langley, Va. If you’re remembering the greatest Princeton athletes ever, you can’t forget Moe Berg.
What about Moe Berg, Class 1923? Tigers’ baseball captain his senior year, language wizard, future major leaguer, and World War II spy for the OSS. He turned down the Medal of Freedom, now the Presidential Medal of Freedom but created by President Truman as the highest honor given to civilians during WWII. After Berg’s death in 1972 his sister Ethel accepted the medal and donated it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Two biographies were written about Berg in 1974 and 1994, and a Hollywood movie, starring Paul Rudd, was made in 2018. The Baseball Hall of Fame mounted an exhibit on Berg the same year. Finally, two of Berg’s baseball cards are said to be on display at the CIA Museum in Langley, Va. If you’re remembering the greatest Princeton athletes ever, you can’t forget Moe Berg.