The Spy Who Played Baseball

Author : Carrie Jones
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781541528956

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The Spy Who Played Baseball by Carrie Jones Pdf

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 : Nicholas Dawidoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307807090

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The Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff Pdf

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 : Red Chair Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684526499

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Moe Berg: Spy Catcher by Jeri Cipriano Pdf

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 : Carrie Jones
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 1567924271

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Moe Berg by Carrie Jones Pdf

Author : Carrie Jones
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781541517134

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The Spy Who Played Baseball by Carrie Jones Pdf

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 : Kar-Ben Publishing (R)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512458640

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The Spy Who Played Baseball by Carrie Jones Pdf

"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 : Brad Herzog
Publisher : I Spy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1585364967

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I Spy with My Little Eye by Brad Herzog Pdf

Herzog ("H Is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet") teams up with photographer Milne to create a visual puzzle book that challenges the deductive skills and sharp eyes of baseball fans.

Author : Tricia Andryszewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562946102

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The Amazing Life of Moe Berg by Tricia Andryszewski Pdf

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 : Marissa Moss
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613124932

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Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss Pdf

As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope. This true story, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, introduces children to a little-discussed part of American history through Marissa Moss’s rich text and Yuko Shimizu’s beautiful illustrations. The book includes author and illustrator notes, archival photographs, and a bibliography.

Author : Todd Anton,Bill Nowlin
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623687045

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When Baseball Went to War by Todd Anton,Bill Nowlin Pdf

Combined with never-before-published photographs and other special features, this account tells the compelling and unforgettable story of ballplayers such as Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Jerry Coleman, Bob Feller, Lou Brissie, and Johnny Pesky who answered their nation's call to serve their country.

Author : Brad Herzog
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781585365975

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Full Count by Brad Herzog Pdf

Following his H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet, Brad Herzog once again steps to the plate to bring the game of baseball to fans of every age. Using numbers as its backdrop, Full Count: A Baseball Number Book goes behind the batter's box and into the dugout to explain game basics and showcase historic moments. Starting with the signal for a fastball (1), to the miles-per-hour speed on some of the fastest pitches ever thrown (100+), Full Count counts out the players, the plays, and pulse-stopping moments in America's favorite sport. Brad Herzog has won several awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He has published more than two dozen books, including his sports alphabet books, H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet and K is for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet. Brad lives on California's Monterey Peninsula. Following successful careers as a commercial illustrator and a wildlife artist, Bruce Langton started illustrating children's books. His books include P is for Putt: A Golf Alphabet and Win One for the Gipper: America's Football Hero. Bruce lives in Granger, Indiana.

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781566638494

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But Didn't We Have Fun? by Peter Morris Pdf

The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost eraand a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that reallyhappened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.

Author : Louis Kaufman,Barbara Fitzgerald,Tom Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0848813871

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Moe Berg by Louis Kaufman,Barbara Fitzgerald,Tom Sewell Pdf

Author : Alan M. Klein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691007446

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Baseball on the Border by Alan M. Klein Pdf

For ten seasons (from 1985 to 1994) the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. The "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas, and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Cultural anthropologist Alan Klein gives us the full story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. Photos.

Author : Nicholas Dawidoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054193191

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Baseball by Nicholas Dawidoff Pdf

Includes stories, memoirs, poems, news reports, and insider accounts about all aspects of baseball from its pastoral nineteenth-century beginnings to now.