The Catcher Was a Spy: the mysterious life of Moe Berg
by Dawidoff, Nicholas
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- first
- Condition
- G PB
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Sebago, Maine, United States
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About This Item
NY: Vintage. G PB. (1994). 1st ptg. One of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. Moe Berg's baseball card is the only major league baseball player . on display at the CIA. He became an OSS spy in Europe during WWII. Few page corners creased. .
Synopsis
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music , and is the editor of the Library of America’s Baseball: A Literary Anthology . He is also a contributor to The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine . A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy. He and his wife live in New York.
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- Title
- The Catcher Was a Spy: the mysterious life of Moe Berg
- Author
- Dawidoff, Nicholas
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- Book Condition
- Used - G PB
- Edition
- 1st ptg
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1994)
- Keywords
- One of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. Moe Berg's, baseball card is the only major league baseball player, Baseball, Sports, Spies, World War II
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