How A Baseball Player Became a World War II Assassin

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  • čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
  • It's not surprising that a global conflict like World War II generated so many amazing spy stories. Espionage has always been a business marked by deceit, betrayal, and frequently, death. The fate of a captured spy is usually brutal, and even relatively benign entities like the Allies dealt harshly with such individuals. Still, their treatment was relatively kind compared with the Nazis.
    These stories include heroes and villains, loyalists and traitors, and the greatest WWII spies who were motivated by duty, principle, or just plain money.
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Komentáře • 85

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Před měsícem +33

    Berg's children: What did you do in the war, Daddy?
    Berg: It's complicated, kids.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary Před měsícem +36

    Tinker, tailor, soldier, baseball player, spy

  • @davea6314
    @davea6314 Před měsícem +34

    This baseball player became an assassin right off the BAT. 😜

  • @salty82ndveteran
    @salty82ndveteran Před měsícem +18

    This guy's got the biggest baseballs in all the game 😅

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Před měsícem +4

    So many interesting stories during WW2.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před měsícem +13

    And still we know nothing of the epic 'White Spy' vs. 'Black Spy' backstory.

    • @ArcherSuh4721
      @ArcherSuh4721 Před měsícem +2

      And who was that Grey Spy working for?
      And if there were baseball catchers involved, it's very well possible that any of the players on the 43-Man Squamish teams were also.
      It's a riddle wrapped around a mystery inside an enigma!

  • @bradleymyers5030
    @bradleymyers5030 Před měsícem +22

    There is a movie about this very person, it's called "The Catcher was a Spy". It came out in 2018 featuring Paul Rudd. 33% on Rotten Tomatoes but I liked it.

    • @robert.m4676
      @robert.m4676 Před měsícem +13

      Rotten tomatoes is stupid .

    • @MarianneKat
      @MarianneKat Před měsícem +4

      Added it to watchlist. Thanks

    • @MarianneKat
      @MarianneKat Před měsícem +3

      Omg his eyebrows alone deserve an award😂😂

  • @gregsdadmcleod1548
    @gregsdadmcleod1548 Před měsícem +9

    i really like this channel!!

  • @chadbennett3998
    @chadbennett3998 Před měsícem +6

    Listening from Harbour Springs

  • @NASCARFAN93100
    @NASCARFAN93100 Před měsícem +15

    Who knew James Bond was a Baseball Player

    • @TheCaWaLa
      @TheCaWaLa Před měsícem +1

      Now here’s another hit, Barry Bonds

  • @matchrocket1702
    @matchrocket1702 Před měsícem +4

    I read the book on Moe Berg. While on a mission in Italy he took on the guise of a German Captain. Not only was his German perfect, he could also speak in the accents of various regions of Germany. Under that guise he talked his way into a number of high-security areas.

  • @Ilix42
    @Ilix42 Před měsícem +27

    A politician bringing classified documents to private residence where anyone can take pictures of them; glad we don’t have that problem anymore…

  • @colddogs
    @colddogs Před měsícem +38

    🗣️YOU'RE OUT

  • @ceciliaa.87
    @ceciliaa.87 Před měsícem +8

    Recently saw the movie the catcher was a spy

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +6

    0:01 The scene where Harry Lime (Orson Welles) is first seen in the film The Third Man is one of the most famous introduction scenes in film history.

  • @DrCondoz
    @DrCondoz Před měsícem +6

    Who is James Bond not based on "allegedly" at this point?

  • @BrandonTheBoyWonder
    @BrandonTheBoyWonder Před měsícem +3

    I imagine a sign on his front door “no foul play”

  • @ridureyu
    @ridureyu Před měsícem +4

    I would love to see a list of the twenty or so people Ian Fleming supposedly based James Bond on.

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 Před měsícem +1

    "This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more." - William Stephenson

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Před měsícem +1

    Thank you for this! ⚾

  • @Electriceye1984bySam
    @Electriceye1984bySam Před 19 dny

    BEST narrator on youtube👌🏻 witty and funny too😅🏆

  • @chp21600
    @chp21600 Před měsícem +1

    Awesome!!

  • @van8ryan
    @van8ryan Před měsícem +1

    You guys need to eventually do the Chuck Barris story, the game show host/creator who claimed he was also a CIA assassin.

  • @amaliekrogstupbaden9972

    it is always great to hear about Spys but imagine that you are named after a canary bird

  • @jimmyyu2184
    @jimmyyu2184 Před měsícem +1

    Aye Moe, Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!!!

  • @94DramaMonkey
    @94DramaMonkey Před měsícem

    You should do a video about Mona Parsons - the only Canadian civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazi’s in WWII who then later escaped

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector Před měsícem +2

    Interesting

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher Před měsícem +1

    Suggestion for a new video, the idea for the 1972 Kung Fu TV series was not stolen from Bruce Lee, as proven by Matthew Polly in his authoritative biography 'Bruce Lee: A Life.'
    At this point even Wikipedia knows it, but the myth persists.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +2

    A+ video!
    Fascinating topic and video, the history of spies has such great stories!

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +2

    1:19 Those prison suits lol.

  • @coryallan8410
    @coryallan8410 Před měsícem +1

    Everything is fine.

  • @greggheist8762
    @greggheist8762 Před měsícem

    He sued a government over giving him bogus money?

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    11:48 I remember the film Spies Like Us, great comedy!
    I am so grateful that comedians like Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd made such fun and great comedies for us to enjoy!

  • @charlesbennett7484
    @charlesbennett7484 Před 23 dny

    A catcher to does "hits", huh? 😉

  • @diannemose244
    @diannemose244 Před měsícem +5

    Who's on 1st

  • @ShawnPhillips0531
    @ShawnPhillips0531 Před měsícem +1

    What does this have to do with baseball?

  • @EmillioMelendez
    @EmillioMelendez Před měsícem +5

    Weird History

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    0:40 There was also a stuffed bunny and a musical number about it on the musical film Easter Parade with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire.

  • @philsophkenny
    @philsophkenny Před měsícem +1

  • @Me4-gc8qs
    @Me4-gc8qs Před měsícem +2

    Last lol haha

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    1:39 We watched the James Bond Franchise A LOT when I was growing up.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +2

    10:44 Christophe Nolan, who directed The Dark Knight, won the Academy Award for Best Director this year for the film Oppenheimer.
    He was born on July 30th, the day I graduated from the Master's Program at the University of Missouri.

  • @davea6314
    @davea6314 Před měsícem +5

    This talk about Hungary is making me hungry.

    • @robert.m4676
      @robert.m4676 Před měsícem +2

      Does that make you a Hungrian😏

    • @davea6314
      @davea6314 Před měsícem +2

      @@robert.m4676 Yes I'm Hungrian for stinky haggis, and peanut butter with tuna fish sandwiches. 😜

    • @robert.m4676
      @robert.m4676 Před měsícem

      @@davea6314 I hungrian for tuna pizza and warm beer and then I’ll hook up with my ugly woman for a romp in the --well never mind

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +3

    Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
    Eating Hot Dogs*† (Johnsonville)...while watching this Weird History video!
    * From the Weird History video "Every Style of Hot Dog We Could Find Across the US"
    † I put barbecue sauce,basil, and parmesan cheese on one of them and caesar dressing, basil, and parmesan cheese on the other.

    • @Me4-gc8qs
      @Me4-gc8qs Před měsícem

      Nope the other guy beat you. Does it mean that much? Your life is so sad that you need the attention of saying first when you weren't.
      I hope you find a life.

    • @Me4-gc8qs
      @Me4-gc8qs Před měsícem

      Please don't be offended. I'm just trying to understand the excitement of saying first and nothing else. Is it something to be proud of? Something to brag about? I'm just trying to understand why so many do it? Maybe you could explain. Is it because you have never come first in anything in your life. That saying one word on a youtube video makes you feel important? Damn I hope your life improves.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner Před měsícem

      @@Me4-gc8qs You shouldn't have wasted your life in matters of no importance.
      You will soon be crushed and you will have no credibility for the rest of your life.
      It's only a matter of time before you pay the piper.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner Před měsícem

      @@Me4-gc8qs When everyone is pointing fingers at why the state of everything is so terrible, you are leaving records (your posts) of the cause of the problems: unproductive, cowardly, self-interested, and malicious people are to blame.

    • @cpeace3172
      @cpeace3172 Před měsícem

      Which hot dog was the best?

  • @videogamevalley7523
    @videogamevalley7523 Před měsícem

    None of them surprise me to be honest, that’s just what people was doing back in those days. Ah the past.

  • @Patrick-hm4eg
    @Patrick-hm4eg Před měsícem +3

    In regard to Moe's baseball career it was said he could speak 12 languages couldn't hit in any of them.

  • @lp-xl9ld
    @lp-xl9ld Před měsícem +1

    If you grew up in a Jewish household anytime after the 1950s, you know the story of Moe Berg

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    6:53 One of my paternal great-grandmother's has the name Murphy (referenced to Cilian Murphy).

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    3:54 A diary is read as the main speech at the end of the film College Musical.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    0:40 B-Rabbit is the rapper name of Jimmy Smith Jr. (Eminem) on the film 8-Mile.

  • @coryallan8410
    @coryallan8410 Před měsícem +1

    I didn't hit the subscribe button.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    0:35 The White Rabbit is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that Alice follows "down the rabbit hole."

  • @robertrootes
    @robertrootes Před měsícem

    Click bait title

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před měsícem +1

    I am going to watch the video:
    ---TIMELINE 1995---