Joel's Reviews > The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

** spoiler alert ** A redundant but less-than-incisive look at Moe Berg. Dawidoff seems to have done a lot of work to uncover the workings of Moe Berg but unfortunately ran into the same issues with the subject as his contemporaries. To whit, Berg was someone who relished being relished but the substance behind his ego was not well-elucidated with in life or (with this book) posthumously.

This book is full of dozens of, functionally, the same anecdote in the unknowableness of the subject. That repetitiveness, coupled with the faux intrigue of Berg's being a spy (it is in the title so speculation by contemporaries is less than interesting) left me very disappointed with this work.