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@sportsbalt Podcast: Moe Berg Vintage Cards, Espionage, and a Back up Catcher

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Moe Berg, a backup baseball catcher, secretly filmed Tokyo's harbor and munitions factories from a hospital roof for the U.S. government.

Host Danny Black explores the incredible dual life of Moe Berg, a mediocre backup Major League Baseball catcher in the 1920s and 30s who was secretly a spy for the U.S. government. The episode details Berg's espionage missions, including filming Tokyo's industrial sites before WWII and assessing German nuclear scientists, and explains how this hidden history affects the value and rarity of his vintage baseball cards.

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