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

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Moe Berg is the one major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg Used to be a lot 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 (even if it Used to be also said he couldn’t hit in any of them) and went on to transform an OSS spy in Europe throughout World War II. 

As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (despite the fact that equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years throughout which he lived at the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in setting up where Berg went, but who he Used to be beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le Carré, The Catcher Used to be a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.

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