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Author : Tricia Andryszewski
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781562946104
Traces the life of a man who managed two successful careers, as a baseball player and as a secret agent during World War II.
Author : Nicholas Dawidoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307807096
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd “A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review Moe 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 couldn't 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.
Author : Louis Kaufman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780848813871
Author : Carrie Jones
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512458643
"Biography of Major League Baseball catcher and coach who was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nicholas Dawidoff
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Includes stories, memoirs, poems, news reports, and insider accounts about all aspects of baseball from its pastoral nineteenth-century beginnings to now.
Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0316381667
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the middle of building an atomic bomb, the leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler, with just a few pounds of uranium, would have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. So they assembled a rough and motley crew of geniuses -- dubbed the Alsos Mission -- and sent them careening into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The details of the mission rival the finest spy thriller, but what makes this story sing is the incredible cast of characters -- both heroes and rogues alike -- including: Moe Bergm, the major league catcher who abandoned the game for a career as a multilingual international spy; the strangest fellow to ever play professional baseball. Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist credited as the discoverer of quantum mechanics; a key contributor to the Nazi's atomic bomb project and the primary target of the Alsos mission. Colonel Boris Pash, a high school science teacher and veteran of the Russian Revolution who fled the Soviet Union with a deep disdain for Communists and who later led the Alsos mission. Joe Kennedy Jr., the charismatic, thrill-seeking older brother of JFK whose need for adventure led him to volunteer for the most dangerous missions the Navy had to offer. Samuel Goudsmit, a washed-up physics prodigy who spent his life hunting Nazi scientists -- and his parents, who had been swept into a concentration camp -- across the globe. Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who used their unassuming status as scientists to become active members of the resistance. Thrust into the dark world of international espionage, these scientists and soldiers played a vital and largely untold role in turning back one of the darkest tides in human history.
Author : Jeri Cipriano
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1634405919
Some people call him the smartest baseball player of all time. Moe Berg could speak twelve languages—and make up signs on the baseball diamond. How did this major league catcher go on to become an American spy in World War II?
Author : Vivian Grey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613834285
A portrait of Moe Berg describes the colorful, vagabond life of the baseball player and spy, detailing his wartime exploits as an OSS operative gathering information on Hitler's atomic bomb project
Author : Robert K. Fitts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803240244
Presents a detailed account of the attempt to reconcile the United States and Japan through the 1934 All American baseball tour which included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack.
Author : Jon M. Fishman
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541537629
Aaron Judge broke a thirty-year-old MLB record and won the home run derby—as a rookie. And he shows no signs of slowing down. Sports fans will love this high-action book about one of baseball's newest stars.