10 Facts About Sy Berger

Seymour Perry Berger was an employee of the Topps company for over 50 years.

Sy Berger is credited as being the co-designer of the 1952 Topps baseball series, as is regarded as "the father of modern baseball cards".

Sy Berger, who was Jewish, was born on July 12,1923, on the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, to Louis and Rebecca Sy Berger.

Sy Berger served in the Army Air Forces in World War II and later graduated from Bucknell University with an accounting degree.

Sy Berger died on December 14,2014, aged 91, at home in Rockville Centre, New York.

Sy Berger is survived by his wife of 69 years, three children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

In 1960, because "nobody wanted the stuff" and Topps needed the storage space, Sy Berger had the equivalent of three garbage trucks full of 1952 Topps baseball cards loaded onto a barge.

Since 1978, Sy Berger was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Sy Berger was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on April 29,2012, and acknowledged by the New York Senate for this attainment of success and personal achievement.

Sy Berger was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2015.