Spy Catcher (Ep. 050)

Old School Catcher's MittIn the years before World War II, a third-string baseball catcher stood on a Tokyo rooftop taking pictures of the city’s Harbor. Was he, as he insisted, a patriotic American? Or a spy? How did he get onto the rooftop, anyway? Was it because he was wearing a kimono? In Episode 50, Out Of My Mind podcast host Jay Douglas tells the story, if it really is the story, of Moe Berg, the most enigmatic spy ever to don a trench coat…or a baseball uniform.

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Read Jay’s blog post at The Out Of My Mind Blog. And don’t miss the Mind Doodle at the end of the post for a little-known story about Moe Berg’s final resting place.

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