Paul Rudd goes undercover in ‘Catcher Was Spy’
The actor plays baseball player-turned-agent Moe Berg in a new biopic
Moe Berg played 15 mostly unremarkable seasons as a catcher in the majors for various teams, retiring in 1939 with a mediocre career batting average of .243 and a paltry six home runs. About his only notable accomplishment was an American League record of 117 consecutive errorless games in the 1930s. This is hardly the stuff of big-screen biopics.
Even though Berg wasn’t observant, his cultural background played a role in his decision to accept the anti-Nazi assignment. “Growing up in a family of Jewish immigrants” — Berg’s parents emigrated from Russia — “there was a strong pull of his religious heritage,” Dawidoff said. “He was constantly thinking about and confronting his religion.”
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The Catcher was a Spy releases in the UAE on Thursday.
