Comments | gapingheadwound: Whatever Teddy Ballgame, let's talk about MOE BERG

gapingheadwound

Whatever Teddy Ballgame, let's talk about MOE BERG

Sep 05, 2009 03:42

Awesome WWII-era (Well, technically interwar period) Jewish baseball players you need to know about? MORRIS "MOE" BERGMoe Berg was a light-hitting back-up catcher (including, leading up to WWII, for the Boston Red Sox), so you're probably like "why should I know who this guy is?" Because he was a goddamn brilliant mofo who decided he wanted to be ( Read more... )

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gapingheadwound October 8 2009, 05:30:14 UTC

You can totally friend me. (I was just thinking about adding you, actually.)

I haven't read that book? Is it good? I'm so sad I can't mention Berg in IB fic since no one would have known what he was doing until after the war. :( (On the other hand, I can talk about all the other historical baseball players I want to I guess. Brb making one of the nobody!Basterds from Cleveland so he can never shut up about Lou Boudreau.)

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gapingheadwound October 8 2009, 05:45:32 UTC

Awesome. I'm gonna put it on my to-read list, then. Thanks for the rec!