Moe Berg cards

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Hi Julie

I noticed several Moe Berg cards just appeared on Ebay, just wanted to give you a heads up.


good luck brian

item # 1862146473, 1862145964, 1862145483, and 1862144689.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Some in worse shape, some in better. Plus: hard Batter Up #149; 1940 Playball, 4 or 5 commemoratives.

Interesting to see so many at once! Also interesting to see if they go for the outlandish prices I paid.

It would also be interesting to figure out why I got them.

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Posted By: Anonymous

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679415661/qid=1032565173/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-5439036-5403316?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

If you are interested in Moe Berg, there is a book.

After I read the book, I was less interested in Moe Berg.

bruce

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Posted By: jeff s

I was interested in MB, read the book, now less interested. It seemed to me like the MB myth had gotten a little out of hand, and Dawidoff reacted in kind--he was a little harsh. There are lots of pages that detail just how little he was up to for quite a large chunk of his life.

It's a well-written, well-researched book, though, as I recall.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

You are absolutely right. All his life, he was surrounded by interesting people, but he himself wasn't really very interesting, though occasionally weird.

Still, I collected all those cards, and an original photo, in which he's sitting uncomfortably on a park bench, in a suit too small for him, with lots of pomade in his hair.

And the legends! "HOF"! "The film he took in Tokyo in 1934 was absolutely essential to the Doolittle raids."
"He spoke 7 languages perfectly."
Rubbish!