Ebook {Epub PDF} The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

Moe Berg - Athlete Patriot. A compelling story of intrigue that combines the best of sports with the best of mystery. Morris "Moe" Berg was a journeyman major league catcher as well as a spy for the OSS, the predecessor of the bltadwin.ru Rating: % positive.  · NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF is the author of the national bestseller THE CATCHER WAS A SPY: THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF MOE BERG on which the feature film was based. His biographical memoir of his economist grandfather, THE FLY SWATTER: PORTRAIT OF AN EXCEPTIONAL CHARACTER, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  · The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg: Author: Nicholas Dawidoff: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects3/5(9).

Dawidoff has accumulated a vast body of information in a remarkable job of research, especially considering that Berg, who died of a heart attack at age 70 in , deliberately cloaked the details of his life in mystery. What Dawidoff has failed to do is distill it into a story calculated to hold a reader's interest. Relentlessly entertaining."--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 and The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg Nicholas Dawidoff, Author Pantheon Books $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author.

The Catcher Was a Spy By N. Dawidoff This book, first published in , is not just about a brilliant, secular Jewish baseball star who also went on to become a U.S. spy for the OSS during WW II. More so, it is an in-depth biography of a strange but lovable character who proves to be just one of a family with similar traits of eccentricity. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between and Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg: Author: Nicholas Dawidoff: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects.