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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Casey Stengel called him the “strangest man ever to play baseball,” which, coming from “The Old Perfessor”, is notable. His career somehow spanned 15 seasons, even though he was just a career .243 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Born in New York City in 1902, Morris “Moe” Berg was an outstanding high school student and one of the few Jews then to gain admission to the Ivy League. At Princeton, he starred on the baseball team, ...

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 ...

A brilliant scholar who spoke seven languages, he served as a spy during World War II for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the predecessor to the CIA), gathering crucial intelligence vital to ...

Moe Berg can’t catch a break at the movies. The wild life of the Red Sox player turned secret OSS operative was already a big-screen stiff in last year’s “The Catcher Was a Spy,” which starred a ...

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 ...