I’ve posted before about trouble that Wikipedia gets in when in features lame posts on the front page. See here and here.

So, I’ve got to give credit where credit is due. Yesterday, Moe Berg was featured on the front page. He was an absolutely fascinating person and if you ever have had the misfortune of being around me when I’m into the sauce, you might have heard a lecture about him.

Some highlights:

- high school and college baseball star that had played 16 years in the major leagues

- spoke seven languages (and according to a fellow major leaguer “couldn’t hit in any of them”)

- considered the smartest person ever to play MLB

- was included on a major league all-star team to Japan in 1936 even though he was a light-hitting, second string catcher because he could speak Japanese. He snuck on top of a hospital to film the cityscape. These films were used to plan WW2 bombing runs.

- During WW2 he served in the OSS — possibly accomplishing very little.

 Read about him, he’s cool.

And in the shameless plug department, friend of the Wikinomics Blog, Neil has just started a cool blog where he is describing 1000 awesome things. So far he has listed:

1000. Broccoflower

999. The last, crumbly triangle in a bag of potato chips

998. Getting grass stains

997. Locking people out of the car and pretending to drive away

996. Opening and sniffing a pack of tennis balls

995.  Finding money you didn’t even know you lost.

 Visit the site. He’s funny.