The Catcher Was a Spy

Name: The Catcher Was a Spy
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 02547910

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2615086The Catcher Was a Spyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-catcher-was-a-spy-9780307807090/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3069174/8e51fcdb-63ca-4581-81c1-f83dfb3334ba.jpg?v=638384837853100000217282MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul RuddA delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.The New York Times Book ReviewMoe 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 couldnt hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II.As 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 Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection....2547910The Catcher Was a Spy217282https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-catcher-was-a-spy-9780307807090/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3069174/8e51fcdb-63ca-4581-81c1-f83dfb3334ba.jpg?v=638384837853100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780307807090_W3siaWQiOiI4MzYyYjU5ZC1mZTRlLTQ3NWQtODNlNC01NmZlMDc3YWY1NzYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI4MiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjY1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxNywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMTBUMDQ6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780307807090_NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul RuddA delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.The New York Times Book ReviewMoe 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 couldnt hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II.As 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 Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection....9780307807090_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_39b49e5d-579b-474d-b463-53f1178066fb_9780307807090;9780307807090_9780307807090Nicholas DawidoffInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-a1ab53f1-bc70-4b01-969f-0c48067ec29d.epub2011-11-02T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group