Today in New Jersey history:
March 2, 1902: Morris “Moe” Berg was born in New York City. Raised in Newark, Berg was known as the best baseball player that the city had ever produced at the time, and he went on to graduate from Princeton University and Columbia Law School. Berg became a major league baseball player, World War II OSS agent and legendary eccentric character in the Roseville section of Newark.
March 2, 1931: Unaware they were fighting a battle they would soon lose, New Jersey members of the Anti-Saloon League met in Newark to form the “Citizens’ Federation for Temperance and Law Observance.”
March 2, 1933: President Herbert Hoover signed legislation making Morristown the first National Historical Park in the United States.
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