Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
A major league catcher who went to law school in the off-season and spoke 5-7 languages joined the OSS and spied on German scientists and nuclear bomb experimenters in Italy and Switzerland. Very reclusive even after hundreds of interviews. The author paints a very shadowy picture of the spy who knew Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Nelson Rockefeller.
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