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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

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Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd

â€œA delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn't hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II.Â

As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (though equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years during which he lived on the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in establishing where Berg went, but who he was beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le CarrÃ©, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780679762898
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1995-05-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679762898

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