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- October 6, 1999
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Oct. 6 -- MOE BERG'S LEGACY: Paul Ferri, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the country, got his first lesson about America as a 5-year-old kid growing up just outside Rome in the thick of World War II.
The subject: baseball. His teacher: Moe Berg.
Berg, Red Sox diehards will recall, was a no-hit catcher who ended his career here in 1939 and later became a storied American spy. As a ballplayer, the joke was that the Princeton-educated Berg could speak a dozen languages and hit in none of them. As a spook, Berg lived an elusive life stalking Nazi Germany's efforts to build The Bomb in the last ...