description: 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.
language: English
title: Catcher Was a Spy
titlecomplete: Catcher Was a Spy
characters: Moe Berg
genres: Biography, Espionage, Military Fiction, American History, Sports, Baseball, Nonfiction, History, World War II, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 2263
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Casey Award
publisher: Random House Value Publishing