The Catcher Was a Spy : The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg (Paperback)

from nmele

An interesting man's interesting story, but the sections about Berg's later years seemed a bit repetitive and overloaded with detail.

from cdogzilla

Berg's life is at once fascinating and depressing. Berg was, evidently, tremendously intelligent but a little bit broken inside and Dawidoff has his hands full stitching it all together. I felt lik...

from Smiley

Interesting as the title sounds. Dawidoff has done his research.

from iluvvideo

A baseball player who didn't want to play. An intelligence officer working for the government, who became even more important in his own mind. And a man who never quite fit in with close friends (o...

from KLmesoftly

A really engaging look at a little-known individual from US history. I love all things esoteric, so I picked this up at the beginning of the summer and spent a month reading it between novels. Well...