Word: berges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading the newcomers in this department is Sophomore Warren Berg, the best pitcher on last year's Yardling nine. He has a very fast ball and good control, but needs Varsity game experience before he can become a dependable asset. In the Freshman game with Tufts last year, he performed the unique feat of throwing only 107 pitches during the game which Harvard...
...basis for getting too optimistic about this year's squad even though he has a host of yeterans returning to the fold. The Sophomore Class, which has an average crop of ball players, unfortunately will not add very much to the general picture. Its only real stars are Warren Berg and Ned Fitzgibbons...
...following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
Beetle-browed, 38-year-old Moe Berg-Princeton '23, Columbia Law School '27 and the Sorbonne at one time or another-is indeed the antithesis of Ring Lardner's celebrated boneheads. A charter member of the Linguistic Society of America, he speaks seven languages-excluding Brooklynese, which he picked up when, fresh from the Princeton campus and trying to hide his Phi Beta Kappa key, he played shortstop for the Dodgers...
Last week, after 19 years of baseball, during which he tried to conceal his intellectual background, Catcher Berg at last removed his mask. Quitting the game he loved even more than his books, Morris Berg, A.B., LL.D, accepted a Government appointment as roving envoy to Mexico and Central America-a good-will post created by the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics...