The catcher was a spy
This is the true story of Moe berg, a Jewish catcher for the red Sox. He was also a Princeton graduate, had a law degree and was a member of the bar, and spoke about fifteen languages, six or eight of them fluently.
During WW II it became clear that Werner Heisenberg - the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, invented quantum mechanics - was working in the field of nuclear fission for the Germans. Moe joined the oss and volunteered to track down Heisenberg, figure out if he was making a bomb, and kill him if he was.
By far the most unrealistic part of the movie is that Moe's girlfriend is the delicious Siena Miller, and he leaves her to wander around wartime Italy. Just off the top of my head I'm not sure there's anyone I leave Siena Miller for, and neither war time Italy nor Werner make the grade.
There's a really kewl part where Connie Neilson, wonder woman's mom and a Dane in real life, gets in Werner's face at a dinner and accuses him of making a bomb for the Nazis with utter disregard for the lives of everyone else in Europe. Connie is old enough that I'm sure she's heard detailed stories of the Nazi occupation of Denmark, and she plays her role with great sincerity.
It's a historically interesting movie. The drama is perhaps a bit thin.i give it a B-.
True facts: Feynman once said to me, "I read Heisenberg's original paper and I have no idea what he's talking about." That got me interested so I read it too. I'm prefectly competent with quantum mechanics, and I couldn't understand any of Heisenberg's paper.
Heisenberg had horrible allergies, so in the spring he told summerfeld he was going north for a few weeks. When he came back he said, "I've got it! I can calculate the entire hydrogen spectrum! There's just one thing, I had to assume that pq - qp = h. What doesn't commute?" Summerfeld said, "I don't know, but next week I'm going to England and I'll see that clever fellow Dirac. Come along and we'll ask him." When they got to England they asked Dirac and he said "matrixes." they asked, "what's a matrix?" Nobel prizes all around a couple years later.