Posted By:
Bill CornellI can't answer the question about female interest in Moe Berg, but thought it was worth reviewing a few details of perhaps the most interesting baseball player ever.
The popular theory that Berg was a spy is exaggerated: he took photos of Tokyo in '34 at the bequest of the US government during a baseball tour and later parachuted into Yugoslavia during WWII, but both acts were done as a willing civilian. He won the Order of Merit for his work in the war.
His baseball career is often dismissed as trivial, but I think it can't be underestimated that he was a Jew playing in an openly anti-Semitic era. The recent Hank Greenberg documentary has some staggering commentary on how difficult this was for the few Jews that played in the 30's.
An Internet search turns up lots of interesting Berg-related sites - these are 2:
brief Berg bio: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/MBerg.html
George Clooney to play Berg in movie adaptation of "The Catcher Was A Spy" (?): http://www.georgeclooney.org/html/CatcherWasASpy.html