The Catcher Was a Spy
by Nicholas Dawidoffliterary work· published 1994
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The stories about Moe Berg - his behavior, his intelligence, his charm - are legion, as are the unanswered questions posed by his life. A baseball player and a spy, he was one of the most colorful men to pursue either line of work. He played in the major leagues from 1923 through 1939 and then became a coach for the Boston Red Sox. It was not, however, as a player that Berg earned his highest accolades, but as a dugout savant (it was said that Berg, educated at Princeton, the Sorbonne, and Columbia, could speak a dozen languages but couldn't hit in any of them). A month after Pearl Harbor, the day after his father - who had never approved of Berg's choice of career - died, Berg announced his departure from baseball and entered the world of diplomacy and espionage.
Adaptations (1)
The Catcher Was a Spy was adapted into a 2018 film.
The Catcher Was a Spy2018 · film · 94 min · dir. Ben Lewin · IMDb ↗Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
