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A Most Unlikely Sanskrit Enthusiast

Born in Manhattan in 1902 to a pharmacist and a housewife, Berg played baseball at Barringer High School in Newark, NJ. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in classical and romance languages and became notorious for practicing Sanskrit from behind home plate.

Michael Kaplan, “This baseball player was secretly trained as a government assassin”, 16 Jun. 2018, New York Post, 18 Jun. 2018 <https://nypost.com/…>.

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