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Aviva Kempner, who made the documentary ‘The Spy Behind Home Plate,’ also doesn’t believe that he was gay. Being a player-manager was a lot more common back then. “Save his romance with Estella Huni, Berg’s known relationships with women were superficial and confused. It’s at this point in the film we’re sent back to the same place we were in the opening sequence.
The core landmarks and buildings would be the same, and beggars can’t be choosers and it’s not like the US military could pop open Google Earth to get accurate depictions of what Tokyo bay looked like.
So, as you can see, there’s good points on both sides of the argument. What else?
Moe says he speaks German, Dutch and all of the romance languages.
And only adding to that is the fact that Moe never made it to visit the ambassador’s daughter.
Back in the movie, even while we see Paul Rudd’s version of Moe Berg filming on the hospital roof top, we can hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous “Day of Infamy” speech.
The camera cuts to Moe and Estella back in the US.
The two are sitting on their couch in stunned silence as they’re listening to President Roosevelt’s speech on the radio. And I also couldn’t find anything to suggest that Moe’s cover name was Anton Aziz like the movie shows.
With that said, though, I think we can give the movie a break. What a nice coincidence … or was it a coincidence?
Was Moe Berg, at this point simply a baseball player, really visiting the ambassador’s daughter?
Well, sort of. He especially shied away from them when it came to female companions. Maybe, as the movie implies, Moe was gay and was also good at keeping secrets. I think he wanted children. This is the citation that went along with the medal:
Mr. His sexuality and relationships continue to puzzle his admirers!
But, with that said, most historians think that it’s not likely his footage was used due to both the timing but also the age of the footage itself.
Remember, Moe’s footage was shot in 1934. If you’re a baseball fan, you’ll get a sense of how good he was offensively with his career stat line:
- G: 663
- AB: 1,813
- R: 150
- H: 441
- BA: .243
- HR: 6
- RBI: 206
- SB: 12
Granted, those aren’t defensive stats, but you get the idea.
You can get a sense for how often he played by looking at his at bats.
You wondered a little bit, but you knew he was fooling around with women,” Moe’s Red Sox teammate Bobby Doerr told Nicholas Dawidoff for ‘The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg,’ the source text of the movie.
“Some guys thought he [Moe] was queer.
More specifically, it started with the 1927 lineup — one that included Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but did not include Earl Averill, Charlie Gehringer, and Lefty Gomez.
But with that said, the movie is correct in mentioning that Moe Berg was one of the players who joined some of the best players in baseball in Japan for some exhibition games. In reality, as the film depicts, Moe and Estella’s relationship ended during the war.