Sy Berger

[Gary Dunaier]

I got a kick out of the part in Boyd and Harris' Sy Berger interview in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book (Little Brown, 1973) where they point out that Mr. Berger was on a water diet at the time they spoke with him, and they quoted him as saying something to the effect of "I'm almost beginning to like the stuff."

Rest in peace, Mr. Berger.

[ocjack]

They were $1 each in 1965 according to Marshall Oreck's catalog.

[Exhibitman]

The Stan Lee of baseball cards...

[turtleguy64]

we just lost a ton of knowledge and memories.From all accounts,he was a mensch.Another icon bites the dust in my lifetime.When the world ends,only Keith Richard and cockroaches will be left.

[jimtigers65]

While deployed to Afghanistan in 2004 a friend sent me some packs of 2004 Topps Fan Favorites. So without much else to do besides 12 hour work shifts, I decided to try to get this set signed, writing the players for autograph requests. When sending out each request I put my home address on the envelope (not my deployed address for fear of signed cards getting lost). To my surprise I received a letter at my deployed location from Mr. Berger on Topps letterhead. He wished me luck on my task and mentioned. Pretty cool success!
BTW, still working on this set. I have 110 out of 149 cards signed.

Jim

[Bigb13]

Rest in peace

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

I got a kick out of the part in Boyd and Harris' Sy Berger interview in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book (Little Brown, 1973) where they point out that Mr. Berger was on a water diet at the time they spoke with him, and they quoted him as saying something to the effect of "I'm almost beginning to like the stuff."

Rest in peace, Mr. Berger.

One of the better and longer looks at Sy is in that interview. There are a couple of others on the web that are pretty good but I always thought that one was the best.

This came in the mail today, I BIN'ed it last week:

[Cerberus]

.......on Berger, and baseball cards in general, posted today on Gizmodo:



http://gizmodo.com/the-unlikely-stor...ped-1671240881