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 ...

During 148 games between 1932 and 1934, Moe Berg played catcher for the Washington Senators. He was also a talented spy for the US government. In a new documentary, The Spy Behind Home Plate, director ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 tell ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The history of MLB is filled with some wild stories and true heroes, and Moe Berg is arguable chief among them. He played in the major leagues for 16 years, making stops at some of the league's most ...

Moe Berg was brilliant. A true Renaissance man. He knew 10 languages, including the long dead Sanskrit. He graduated from Princeton where he battled anti-Semitism and received his law degree from ...

“The Catcher Was a Spy” has excellent source material: It’s based on a true story about Moe Berg, a Jewish, possibly gay baseball player who went to bat for the U.S. intelligence services during World ...