61 years ago: Baseball great Ted Williams was John Glenn’s wingman flying F-9Fs in combat in Korea. When asked to name the greatest team he was ever on, Ted said, “the US Marines”. The Boston Red Sox slugger who wore No. 9 as a...
Did you know that Moe Berg was a second-rate baseball player but a first-rate spy? When baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on tour in baseball-crazy Japan in 1934, some fans wondered why a third-string catcher named Moe Berg was included...