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    Review: 'The Spy Behind Home Plate' presents a ballplayer who was one of a kind

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Jun 11, 2019 3 minutes

    They don't make baseball players like Moe Berg anymore. Judging by Aviva Kempner's authoritative and engrossing documentary "The Spy Behind Home Plate," they likely never did.

    Known as "the brainiest man in baseball," Berg spoke numerous languages, studied Sanskrit at the Sorbonne and during his 15 years in the major leagues liked to travel with a suitcase full of newspapers, books and magazines.

    Berg somehow found time to get a

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