With this podcast we honor the man who inspired the creation of Baseball PhD -- Moe Berg (1902 -- 1972). Moe Berg got his PhD in life -- through baseball. Berg spoke 12 languages travelled the world, played in the major leagues and served as America's foremost atomic spy during World War II. Berg knew about the existence of America's atomic bomb before President Truman! Discover his story as Ralph Berger, Louis Jacobson, Chuck Brodsky, Linda McCarthy and our PhD Committee remember Moe Berg.
Absolutely! Berg was America's foremost atomic spy who kept us safe and allowed the scientists working on our Manhattan project to quit working 16 hour days out of fear that the Nazi's were ahead of us in the development of the atomic bomb. Berg's spy work proved a negative - that the Nazi's were behind the U.S. in the development of the atomic bomb. They don't make them like Moe Berg anymore.
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