Moe Berg: Baseball Star or Master of Espionage?
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You're amazing Karl! Please do Henry vii of england
Another interesting video. You are really good at presenting these videos, keep up the good work as HOST, not interim even if they bring in someone else at a later date.
The biographical film The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) was based on Nicholas Dawidoff's biography, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg (1994). The film was directed by Ben Lewin, and Berg was played by Paul Rudd. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Berg is the subject of the documentary film The Spy Behind Home Plate by Aviva Kempner, released in 2019.
Berg is the subject of Chuck Brodsky's 2002 ballad, "Moe Berg: The Song".
2:40 - Chapter 1 - A childhood hiding from his heritage
4:45 - Mid roll ads
8:40 - Chapter 2 - A career in baseball
11:30 - Chapter 3 - More extended travels
13:45 - Chapter 4 - The war years
16:45 - Chapter 5 - Post war years
21:05 - Conclusion
Always fun to learn about someone I have never heard of
“Maybe I’m not in the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame like so many of my baseball buddies, but I’m happy I had the chance to play pro ball and am especially proud of my contribution to my country. Perhaps I could not hit like Babe Ruth, but I spoke more languages than he did”
Moe Berg
Always thought that Karl there alone and voices just added on editing which made me sad, but on bonus facts in ad pause saw movement in his silver youtube button and this made me happy for Karl
I was excited when I saw the title was Moe Berg. Then immediately disappointed it wasn't about the Canadian singer.guitar player songwriter that fronts the band The Pursuit of Happiness, the only Moe Berg I've ever been aware of.
There's a story that Moe Berg was the basis for the phrase, "good field, no hit," in baseball, which means a player who is very good defensively in the field but can't hit. The story I heard was that either at Princeton or in the minors, (more likely the minors) the St Louis Cardinals sent a scout to one of his games to see if he was good enough to sign. The scout they sent was a Cuban former major leaguer who struggled with English at the times, when the Cardinals asked for his assessment of Berg he allegedly said, "Good field, no hit."
That study only confirmed what we already know...clowns are creepy.
Thanks for the video
I guess I am out of the loop, where's Simon?
He had a disagreement with management, so he left Biographics, Geographics, and TopTenz. It was a fairly amicable split, he hasn't really addressed it other than to basically say he doesn't talk about his business dealings online. The manager in question released a very hat-in-hand response and I fully respect the situation. From what I gathered, the original manager passed away and his daughter was unexpectedly handed the reins and didn't do a great job. Simon wanted out, she let him go, she acknowledged where she could have done better, and promised she would try her hardest
He’s out making videos for his thousands of other channels
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@@HunterJacksonsLaptoplittle known fact but Simon’s middle name is Pickle
@@uPick-iLickI guess is about money ?
Love your content karl! Wish You a happy new year! Please do Constantine the Great 😊😊❤❤❤❤
Liked, commented and already subbed. We love you karl
You had the change to have the tagline as "the catcher in the spy" and you didn't take it
Moe isn't remember for baseball but in . The days of 16 teams to play Major League you had to be special. Picked for a All Star team for games in Japan by Connie Mack tells you all you need to know if you know Connie Mack.
Karl is really looking polished lately!
Could you guys do a video on George Balanchine?
whoever said "nobody likes clowns" hasn't seen the clown girls on my insta feed
Adirondack is a name derived from what the Native Americans called the mountains. a-dr-aan-dak, with the emphasis on the 3rd syllable.
Thanks.
I love your videos, and presentation style. Although, as cute as Snoot is, Isn't "Stroke my Snoot" a bit to NSFW for a recording session. 😂
Interesting biography
Casey Stengle called him strange? 😳
Long time subcriber here. I do enjoy Karl as interim host and he is doing a good job at it.. Actually, he should be full time host. Only down side in my opinion, is the discussion with of camera people during sponcer segment is rather weird
The OSS was formed during WW2. You have to wonder who he was working for before the OSS. The CIA was formed after WW2. The Department of the Navy had its own intelligence directorate called the ONI. It ended up continuing to do what it did for the navy. The Department of War had control only of the army and had its own intelligence department which continued to do what it does for the army later on. The ONI and the Army intel were later put under the partial control of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Apparently the State Department had its own intelligence departments and so did the Department of the Treasury. The Department of Treasury probably tried to get intelligence on smuggling and foreign transactions from the US and a general idea of the state of other countries' financial situation. I doubt that Moe Berg worked for the Treasury. I also doubt he worked for the War department (army at the time) or the Navy. He fitted quite well with State though. When the OSS was formed and later on the CIA was established, the State stopped spying and the OSS and later on the CIA took over.
Worth saying that he most likely didn't get any order to kill Heisenberg because he could have backed out or be captured and that would have lead to the discovery of other spies or informants or the methods used to transfer intelligence. He probably was told to attend one of Heisenberg's speeches to get an idea of what he knew. Worth saying that the assassination of Heisenberg wouldn't have stopped the German nuclear programme at all. It would have slowed it down by a month but not by more. The research was done by others, Heisenberg was just a manager.
Hey, can we get a video on the leader of Cuba, Liam Neeson, er, Fidel Castro?
Add - dah -Ron - Dac ..... good attempt Karl it is a tuff word eh.
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First thing I noticed too, many were spies for the Soviet Union, another regime occupied by them
The Pursuit of Happiness singer this is not😂
Clicked on this purely cause i thought it was a fact fiend
It feels weird without the others to talk to, and youre so serious here. Great video, love your content, but i gotta go watch a Fact Fiend video to rebalance the universe
Who’s this guy with the 1996 haircut???
Rewatch the first three minutes.
I wish I easily spoke a bunch of languages
Pronounciation help: ad-er-ON-dacks. Unless you’re from New York, that one’s hard. 😉
Add-er-on-dack
The green screen is quite small and yellow. Doesn't really live up to the hype.
The host sounds like a friend who would guarantee a nice time and keep up to his promise❤
Quit callin' y'sel interim! Yer indiss' t''ing, for Life ! Unless Weput you onna shelf, Give you a pass. You're one of us until We say, you're not. Capiche ?
Catcher in the spy
When you said
"Welcome to Biographics",
I thought you said:
"Welcome to your Viagra fix."
Bwahahahaha
Anyways
Happy New Years!
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A professional baseball player.... Yes ... A star....mmmmmmm.... that's a reach,😊...... nothing like a little embellishment for a good story!😮
You’re a great host Karl, you should stay here permanently. Second, another reason why I think you should make a Kitty Genovese episode is because the 60th anniversary of her death is this March. So it would be timely. Plus you have a lot of time to write it. Just remember to put an emphasis on her life because we all heard about her death. And it would be interesting.
No, he doesn't have as much time as you think, and a staff of writers do the topics that Karl reports on, on this channel.
Sorry about that, I didn’t know they had limited time, however I did know he was just the host, not the writer. They should just keep in the cards for later.
@@harpman476 yeah he ends up with needing to make videos for several channels now. These, the ones on geographics, and top tens, before the ones on his on channel as well
Talking about making money off of every trade you learn in this world. How are you doing that it cost you a dollar😂🎉
Without Simon this is not the same
I am watching the movie now and it's already getting unwatchable, I like history and Moe Berg never came out or applied he was homosexual, To put that in the movie was just wrong, Is disrespectful, great video and good job explaining that at the start of your video
Ps Did Simon get to big for biographics lol he has a bunch of channels
I won't actually watch videos just click in to keep input in to make up with Simon to let him rehost. Good info litters the internet people do presentations on all manner of it, but it is Simon you can't replace
Actually, Simon is completely replaceable. He never owned the channel, just hosted. He's got plenty of channels in the Whistleverse, I think it's 8. There could be more.
Karl is doing a fantastic job.
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What the hell was the ad? I like squarespace, but the part on clowns was STUPID and is just making the video worse. Make it relatable to the VIDEO. If this was about BOZO the clown or the 3 Stooges this link could work. Morris "Moe" Berg was serious as they get. ESPN did a wonderful 30 for 30 short on him. I nearly disliked your video based solely on the stupid clown stuff. I'm at 8:36 in the video currently. Kirk I had faith you were getting better and yet alas no.
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Quite annoying although the topics are interesting.
Karl should make a different channel. I would listen to him, but not when I expect Simon. Sorry Karl, good luck
Karl has his own channel called fact fiend, it's very freeform so this style of video from him is refreshing. As for Simon, he's left the show, so you can't click this channel and expect him anymore.
I only remain subscribed to find Simon old videos easily (like if you agree) and to anybody who doesn't agree with me please respect my opinion
Make peace with Simon and please bring him, he is such a better host.
No Simon no watch ..sorry
I’m just not sure if there could be a less likable replacement for Simon, who is truly one of the best. Horrible
Ugh smallwood. Unsubbed.