Aviva Kempner talks about her latest film on the Jewish-American experience. (JTA) — Moe Berg’s 15-year career as a major league shortstop, catcher and coach in the 1920s and ’30s wasn’t much to speak ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Morris (Moe) Berg (1902 – 1972) was a Jewish American baseball catcher and major leagues coach who also served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services before and during World War II. Berg’s life ...

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 ...

New documentary on the major leaguer turned spy to open in New York. Moe Berg was “the strangest man ever to play baseball,” recalled Casey Stengel, with his half-century expertise on baseball and the ...

The story of Morris “Moe” Berg almost seems too good to be true, a character cooked up by a fabulist trying to magnify his own legend like Chuck Berry saying he hosted The Gong Show but also killed ...

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 ...

A Columbia Law School graduate who played for the Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and others, Berg is best known for working as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services, a ...