12 Best nonfiction books like The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

Cover of The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

By: Nicholas Dawidoff

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs

1. The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

3.84

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. They were mas… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cobbs's The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner

2. Intruder in the Dust

By: William Faulkner

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in … read more

Similar categories in William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

Cover of Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997 by Terry Pluto, Tom Hamilton

3. Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

By: Terry Pluto , Tom Hamilton

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Relive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory! Remember the exci… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pluto's Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997 book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • baseball
Cover of The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

4. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

By: Nicholas Dawidoff

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • espionage
  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • sports

5. The Bad Guys Won!

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Bad Guys Won! book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

6. Why Time Begins on Opening Day

By: None

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in None's Why Time Begins on Opening Day book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

7. The House of Secrets

By: Brad Meltzer , Tod Goldberg

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A priceless book, hidden in a corpse. A family secret, handed down through generations. And a woman… read more

Similar categories in Brad Meltzer's The House of Secrets book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

8. Cobb: A Biography

By: Al Stump

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hol… read more

Similar categories in Al Stump's Cobb: A Biography book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

9. Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America

By: David Wise

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Spytells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code n… read more

Similar categories in David Wise's Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

10. Our Kind of Traitor

By: John Le Carré

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they splurge on a tennis vacation at a pos… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

11. Summer of '49

By: David Halberstam

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns … read more

Similar categories in David Halberstam's Summer of '49 book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

12. I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It

By: Michael Wilbon , Charles Barkley

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Charles Barkley has never been shy about expressing his opinions. Michael Jordan once said that we … read more

Similar categories in Michael Wilbon's I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

Cover of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker

13. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

4.39

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Baker's The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • history
  • sports
Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

14. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

15. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

16. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

Similar categories in Nellie Bowles's Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own by Mike Greenberg

17. Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

By: Mike Greenberg

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny ) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partne… read more

Similar categories in Mike Greenberg's Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown

18. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy A. Brown's The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"

-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

Cover of Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age by Fred M. Kray

19. Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

By: Fred M. Kray

4.21

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. A… read more

Similar categories in Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and, "the Worst Baseball Team in History"—The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers by Mike Shropshire

21. Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and, "the Worst Baseball Team in History"—The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers

By: Mike Shropshire

3.86

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

“A funny, revealing,  Ball Four –like romp through mid-seventies baseball” from the longtime sports… read more

Similar categories in Mike Shropshire's Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and, "the Worst Baseball Team in History"—The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers book and Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • history
  • sports

11 best-selling history books like The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

Transform Your Habits

The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

Terry Pluto , Tom Hamilton

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

Nicholas Dawidoff

3.37

Transform Your Habits

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Kevin Baker

4.39

View all the books

8 Top audiobook books like Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and, "the Worst Baseball Team in History"—The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers by Mike Shropshire

Transform Your Habits

The Good Rat

Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees

Peter Golenbock , Sparky Lyle

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.