The man considered the
father of the modern sports trading card, Sy Berger, just died at age 91. The
longtime Topps baseball card executive helped design the structure of trading
cards that continues today with a formula of player image on front and
statistics on the back.
Anyone who collected
these cards in the past six decades should give a shout-out to him.
News of his death
inspired an idea for book publishing. Why don't we create trading cards that
celebrate great authors, great books, major publishers, key publishing individuals
and significant moments in publishing's history?
There can be s
children's version and an adult one. They can be stored, you guessed it, in a
book.
When I was a kid of the 70s and a teen of the 80s, I collected baseball cards, Wacky Pack stickers, magazines, newspapers, coins, stamps, TV Guide covers and things that no one even thinks about today. We collect gadgets now. We went from the physical to digital and now collectibles exist in the clouds.
When I was a kid of the 70s and a teen of the 80s, I collected baseball cards, Wacky Pack stickers, magazines, newspapers, coins, stamps, TV Guide covers and things that no one even thinks about today. We collect gadgets now. We went from the physical to digital and now collectibles exist in the clouds.
But I think if we
honored the publishing world with trading cards it would be a fun way to
educate and inspire the reading public about the history of the book and its social,
political, and financial significance in the world today.
Who knows, maybe one
day kids will trade a baseball card for an author card!
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