Casey Stengel once said that Moe Berg was the strangest man to ever play baseball. Berg was born in New York on March 2nd, 1902. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. His father, Bernard Berg, was a druggist. He arrived from the Ukraine in 1894 and found work ironing in a laundry. Rose Tashker, arrived two years later when Bernard saved enough money. Bernard also put aside enough money to open his own laundry on the Lower East Side. But he had bigger ambitions, so he attended night school at the Columbia School of Pharmacy. By the time Moe was born, joining older siblings, Samuel and Ethel, Bernard was a pharmacist.
Moe Berg: The Catcher Was a Spy
