Monday, December 15, 2014

Sy Berger, R. I. P.

Sy Berger, who invented the Topps baseball card, dies: In the 1950s, Berger used scissors and cardboard at his kitchen table as he played around with ideas for trading cards until he devised a design for Topps that endured for decades: team logos and a fake player autograph on the front with stats on the back.  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

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