Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the 2019 Major League Baseball season officially underway today, check out the trailer for “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” the ...

(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 of, but his story keeps being told in about as many ways as there are to ...

Moe Berg was “the strangest man ever to play baseball,” recalled Casey Stengel, with his half-century expertise on baseball and the strange. After all, Stengel didn’t know another Jewish journeyman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moe Berg’s life was like something out of a movie, so it was only a matter of time before the former Major League Baseball player who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the subject ...

As World War II continued to rage in December 1944, German physicist Werner Heisenberg conducted a lecture at a college in Zurich. Heisenberg was thought to be the brains behind Nazi efforts to build ...

Morris “Moe” Berg’s 15-season career as a baseball catcher in the 1920s and ’30s was not exactly stellar, certainly nothing to write home -— or make a movie — about. But as Nicholas Dawidoff’s 1994 ...

Morris “Moe” Berg was an odd duck. The baseball player and coach, who played 15 seasons for a handful of major league teams, including the Washington Senators in the early 1930s, came to be known as ...

American baseball player Morris "Moe" Berg, whose major league career spanned 15 unillustrious seasons on four different teams between 1923 and 1939, never advanced beyond the positions of backup ...

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 ...

As World War II continued to rage in December 1944, German physicist Werner Heisenberg conducted a lecture at a college in Zurich. Heisenberg was thought to be the brains behind Nazi efforts to build ...