Filmmaker Aviva Kempner

Filmmaker Aviva Kempner

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Baseball week at Bullseye continues with filmmaker Aviva Kempner. She’ll talk to us about her documentary The Spy Behind Home Plate. The film follows the life of catcher-turned-World War II spy Moe Berg, quite possibly the smartest man to play baseball. Moe played baseball back in the era of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, learned Sanskrit at the Sorbonne, and took some of the earliest known photos of Tokyo.