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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg de Nicholas Dawidoff

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

Autor Nicholas Dawidoff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 1995
The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" (Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man. Photos.
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ISBN-13: 9780679762898
ISBN-10: 0679762892
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

Notă biografică

Nicholas Dawidoffis the author of five books. One of them,The Fly Swatter,was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another,In the Country of Country,was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature byConde Nast Traveller.His first book,The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life Of Moe Bergwas a national bestseller and appeared on many 1994 best book lists. In 2009, Pantheon publishedThe Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness and Baseball. He is also the editor of the Library of America’sBaseball: A Literary Anthology.A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri and Berlin Prize Fellow, and is a contributor toThe New Yorker,The New York Times Magazineand theAmerican Scholar.

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The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" (Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man. Photos.