"There's Moe Berg over there. He knows 12 languages and is a pretty fair hitter, but none of them languages is going to help him when he's up there at the plate. You've gotta know the pitcher's language, and I was teethed on a baseball bat. Good luck, Moe; but all them seven languages you know ain't gonna do you no good now. I got the world's smartest roomie. He can speak seven languages but he can't hit in any of them. I ain't learned him no hittin' and he ain't learned me no learnin'."
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Dave Harris, as quoted, respectively, in "Hitters Are Born, Not Made, Say Dave, Minus Smile" by Shirley L. Povich, in The Washington Post (June 5, 1933); in "This Morning" by Povich, in The Washington Post (May 9, 1947); and in "Roommates in Sports" by Bob Addie, in The Washington Post (August 8, 1961)
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Moe Berg
Morris "Moe" Berg (March 2, 1902 – May 29, 1972), was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the OSS during World War II. Although he played 15 seasons in the major leagues, almost entirely for four American League teams, Berg was never more than an average player, usually used as a backup catcher, and was better known for being "the brainiest guy in baseball" than for anything he accomplished in the game. Casey Stengel once described Berg as "
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