With the 2019 Major League Baseball season officially underway today, check out the trailer for “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” the first feature-length documentary about Moe Berg, the enigmatic and ...
Run, don’t walk, to see The Catcher Was a Spy. The film should be required viewing in every American History class, not to mention a prime example of what a real American patriot looks like. Baseball ...
The promising documentary “The Spy Behind Home Plate” has a subject that should guarantee a home run: professional baseball player Morris “Moe” Berg, who played 15 seasons as shortstop and catcher, ...
There aren’t a lot of sports stars who could claim to be as interesting as Moe Berg, a Major League baseball player who spoke nearly a dozen languages, blew audiences away on quiz shows, and worked as ...
Moe Berg was easily the most fascinating baseball player to ever play the game. Not because of his skills as an athlete, but because he graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School, ...
Aviva Kempner’s "The Spy Behind Home Plate" tells the amazing but true story of Morris “Moe” Berg, the Princeton and Columbia grad who played professional baseball for several major league teams, ...
Brilliant documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner reveals the answer in the movie of the same name that debuts June 7 at the Clairidge Cinema in Montclair. His name was Moe Berg, and for much of our ...
Moe Berg wasn’t a baseball star, but his life was far more interesting than almost any other player. He was born in 1902 in New York City, he excelled academically, graduating from Princeton and ...
Whether or not Moe Berg was the “strangest man ever to play baseball,” as Casey Stengel reportedly once called him, he might have been the most interesting one. But that reputation was forged off the ...
Moe Berg played 15 mostly unremarkable seasons as a catcher in the majors for various teams, retiring in 1939 with a mediocre career batting average of .243 and a paltry six home runs. About his only ...