NEW YORK (AP) -- The father of the modern baseball trading card who designed the famed Topps versions in the 1950s has died. Sy Berger was 91. His daughter, Maxine Berger-Bienstock, says Berger ...

According to the New York Times, Berger's cards, released in 1952, were the first to be printed in color and to be graced by players' stats and facsimiles of their signatures. Kids would flip the ...

He was 91. Berger, who worked for Topps for 50 years, made sure the 1952 set (which included Mickey Mantle’s rookie card) had color photos, names and positions on the front and statistics on the ...