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Author | : Nicholas Dawidoff |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2011-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307807096 |
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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 | : Jeri Cipriano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1634402804 |
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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 | : Peter Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Espionage |
ISBN | : 9780855610982 |
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Author | : Carrie Jones |
Publisher | : Kar-Ben Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1512458643 |
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"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 | : Tricia Andryszewski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781562946104 |
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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 | : Louise Fitzhugh |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593482328 |
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Soon to be an Apple TV+ animated series starring Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, it's no secret that Harriet the Spy is a timeless classic that kids will love! Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together? "What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil."—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot
Author | : Stuart A. Herrington |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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America's chief spy catcher between 1983 and 1994 reveals his own Cold War memoir of a career spent chasing down spooks, moles, and traitors in the U.S., most notably Clyde Conrad, the most damaging spy in American history.
Author | : Peter Morris |
Publisher | : Government Institutes |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2009-04-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1615780033 |
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Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure. Decked out in the so-called tools of ignorance, he stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though they still wore no gloves or protective equipment. Extraordinary courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast reflexes, great hands, and a cannon for a throwing arm. With so great a range of needed skills, a special mystique came to surround the position, and it began to seem that a good catcher could single-handedly make the difference between winning and losing.
Author | : John Kelly |
Publisher | : Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2008-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1405328940 |
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Help your child learn to read with this thrilling graphic tale perfect for reluctant readers Graphic Readers are gripping comic-book adventures aimed at boys and reluctant readers. Help your child learn to read as they travel back in time to a world of spies and unexploded bombs among the rubble of London during the Blitz. Watch as they read about 10-year-old Harry Tucker as he leads a gang of friends on the trail of a suspected spy � their adventures take them into abandoned buildings and factories, through the streets of London, into air-raid shelters and down into the Underground tube stations.
Author | : J. D. Salinger |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316460001 |
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The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.