The Spy Behind Home Plate is a documentary about Moe Berg, an enigmatic Jewish catcher during baseball’s Golden Age who joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to spy for the U.S. on the Nazis’ atomic bomb program.
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Office of Strategic Services established
On June 13, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Throughout the Second World War, this wartime intelligence agency operated in every theater (albeit minimally in the Pacific), collecting and analyzing information as the nation’s first centralized intelligence service. Read More
Film Threat Review of “The Spy Behind Home Plate”
Most people are nesters. They wiggle and squirm through life until they find a nice warm spot to burrow their heads in. For work, it’s as simple as finding something reliable that doesn’t make you completely miserable—a little misery is expected. Moe Berg wasn’t most people. He was an all-star baseball player, a published writer, […]
2022 Early Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Lefty O’Doul
While traveling to Japan with a group of All-Stars in 1931, he became engrossed with spreading the game, soon writing a manual for teaching the fundamentals of baseball to Japanese players, and serving as a goodwill ambassador both before and after World War II in addition to his duties managing in the PCL. Though he […]
Director Aviva Kempner Talks All Things Baseball With Safe At Home Tuesdays
Awards from the Seattle Jewish Film Festival
Aviva Speaks with the Las Vegas Jewish Film Fest
Virtual Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival Webinar – “The Spy Behind Home Plate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfX1ovXtzrk&feature=youtu.be