{"product_id":"the-catcher-was-a-spy-the-mysterious-life-of-moe-berg-paperback","title":"The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Dawidoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 Carr , \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher Was a Spy \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Dawidoff\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books. One of them, \u003ci\u003eThe Fly Swatter, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, \u003ci\u003eIn the Country of Country, \u003c\/i\u003e was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature by \u003ci\u003eConde Nast Traveller.\u003c\/i\u003e His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life Of Moe Berg\u003c\/i\u003e was a national bestseller and appeared on many 1994 best book lists. In 2009, Pantheon published \u003ci\u003eThe Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness and Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of the Library of America's \u003ci\u003eBaseball: A Literary Anthology.\u003c\/i\u003e A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri and Berlin Prize Fellow, and is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52013634453805,"sku":"9780679762898","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-catcher-was-a-spy-the-mysterious-life-of-moe-berg-paperback-1311454.webp?v=1777443428","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-catcher-was-a-spy-the-mysterious-life-of-moe-berg-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}