About this title: The biography of Moe Berg, sometime major-league catcher, sometime spy, sometime lawyer, and full-time enigma. Berg, a Princeton graduate and Wall Street lawyer who played sporadically (and not very well) with the major leagues between 1923 and 1939, was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS during World War II, and he eventually was awarded ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679762898ISBN:0679762892
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I was a little disappointed in this book. The first part was good and the last part was great, but the middle part of his spy years was very dull. I expected that would be my favorite part but there were way too many details and not enough of the 'human' part of it. It took me a month to read which 3 1/2 weeks was spent on plodding thru the spy years!"
"This is an excellent biography of a most fascinating character, Morris "Moe" Berg who was a catcher for the White Sox, Senators, Red Sox AND a member of the World War II OSS, which disbanded but later reformed into the CIA (sans Mr Berg.) This book offers excellent insight into baseball in the 1920s and 1930s PLUS the world of espionage in the 1940s."
"I expected this to be more exciting than it was. The author was so dry it seemed that Moe Berg was good at academics thanks to a photographic memory and mediocre at everything else he did. If you like true espionage stories skip this and find a better one."
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