Babe Ruth in Japan, during a 1934 tour by star US baseball players.pic.twitter.com/KQB5E1fwDB
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Back to Babe Ruth, there's a book which looks at what happened on that 1934 tour. http://onlyagame.legacy.wbur.org/2012/03/17/banzai-babe-ruth …pic.twitter.com/tsaei5zlhD
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As @Kangae_Roo said, one side -story of the 1934 tour was the presence of catcher Moe Berg, who later joined the OSS. "The Catcher was a Spy" is a new film about Berg, in which he's played by Paul Rudd. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4602066/ …pic.twitter.com/XbnjRxh3Sp
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The film covers the episode in Japan. Berg was not a star player like the others but was apparently invited on the tour because he had visited Japan before, and was believed to have some Japanese.pic.twitter.com/Qp7s4isew3
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Here is the part in the film where Berg climbed to the roof of St. Luke's hospital in Tsukiji, to take newsreel footage of facilities in Tokyo Bay (which he later showed to US authorities). Not sure if we're supposed to think Berg wore kimono to blend in.pic.twitter.com/pEXVH65gPK
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