In this carefully prepared history dominated by the larger-than-life player Babe Ruth, author Robert Fitts corrects the errors of previous books about the famous baseball tour of Japan 1934.
Because of his thorough research, Mr. Fitts is able to debunk the notion, for example, that catcher Moe Berg, who was a linguist and world traveler, joined the team in order to act as a spy for the United States government. Berg, he shows, enjoyed filming forbidden scenes and objects, taking advantage of every opportunity, but it was not until later that he joined the OSS and engaged in espionage—in Germany.
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