Catcher Was a Spy
Blurb
The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg is a 1994 biography written by Nicholas Dawidoff about a major league baseball player who also worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moe Berg, the subject of the book, was an enigmatic person who hid much of his private life from the those who knew him and who spent his later decades as a jobless drifter living off the good will of friends and relatives.The book spent seven weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list which described the biography as "The life of Moe Berg, big-league catcher, O.S.S. agent, lady's man, and freeloader."
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