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Author | : Carrie Jones |
Publisher | : Kar-Ben Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : 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 | : Carrie Jones |
Publisher | : Kar-Ben Publishing ™ |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 154151713X |
Moe Berg is not a typical baseball player. He's Jewish—very unusual for the major leagues in the 1930s—has a law degree, speaks several languages, and loves traveling the world. He also happens to be a spy for the U.S. government. When World War II begins, Moe trades his baseball career for a life of danger and secrecy. Using his unusual range of skills, he sneaks into enemy territory to gather crucial information that could help defeat the Nazis. But he also has plenty of secrets of his own. . .
Author | : Nicholas Dawidoff |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2011-11-02 |
Genre | : 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 | : Carrie Jones |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1541528956 |
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Moe Berg is not a typical baseball player. He's Jewish—very unusual for the major leagues in the 1930s—has a law degree, speaks several languages, and loves traveling the world. He also happens to be a spy for the U.S. government. When World War II begins, Moe trades his baseball career for a life of danger and secrecy. Using his unusual range of skills, he sneaks into enemy territory to gather crucial information that could help defeat the Nazis. But he also has plenty of secrets of his own. . .
Author | : Carrie Jones |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Baseball players |
ISBN | : 9781567924275 |
Author | : Jeri Cipriano |
Publisher | : Red Chair Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2018-08-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Nicholas Dawidoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : 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 | : Robert K. Fitts |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Jeri Cipriano |
Publisher | : Red Chair Press |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2022-08-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684526493 |
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 | : Anne R. Keene |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2018-04-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 168358208X |
In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year's World Series, Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. They and other past and future stars formed one of the greatest baseball teams of all time. They were among a cadre of fighter-pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at an elite Navy training school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a child, Anne Keene's father, Jim Raugh, suited up as the team batboy and mascot. He got to know his baseball heroes personally, watching players hit the road on cramped, tin-can buses, dazzling factory workers, kids, and service members at dozens of games, including a war-bond exhibition with Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium. Jimmy followed his baseball dreams as a college All-American but was crushed later in life by a failed major-league bid with the Detroit Tigers. He would have carried this story to his grave had Anne not discovered his scrapbook from a Navy school that shaped America's greatest heroes including George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, John Glenn, and Paul "Bear" Bryant. With the help of rare images and insights from World War II baseball veterans such as Dr. Bobby Brown and Eddie Robinson, the story of this remarkable team is brought to life for the first time in The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.