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Bergino Baseballs are featured in the premier retail stores, catalogs, art galleries and museums throughout the world.
How did we get there? Well, it started with these two guys...
Jay Goldberg / CEO
After six years in the world of politics, followed by 15 years as a sports agent, Jay Goldberg’s entrepreneurial vision and passion led him home – to baseball – and the founding of Bergino.
While still an undergraduate at NYU, Jay began working with the country’s preeminent political imagemaker David Garth.
Six years later, he went to work as the Director of Marketing for Athletes & Artists, Inc., while attending law school at night. In 1991, Jay started The SportsMakers Agency, an athlete representation and sports marketing firm.
In the sports arena, Jay managed image campaigns and negotiated various contracts for such baseball legends as Mike Schmidt, Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and Don Larsen; sportscasters Al Michaels, Chris Berman, Dan Dierdorf and Karl Nelson; sports heroes Mark Spitz, Edwin Moses, Eric Heiden, Jeff Blatnick, Mike Eruzione, Al Oerter and Jim Valvano; and even top-dog advertising icon Spuds MacKenzie.
During his time in the political consulting field, Jay worked on Mayoral campaigns for Ed Koch and Tom Bradley, Senate campaigns for Arlen Specter and John Heinz, and the Presidential Democratic primary campaign of Walter Mondale.
Additionally, Jay managed and promoted all aspects of the innovative and highly successful “Russians Are Coming” and “Russian Tour-nado I and II” Hockey Tours.
Jay is a graduate of NYU and New York Law School.
Jay’s dad took him to his first baseball game at the age of three. While crawling underneath the seats at Yankee Stadium looking for bottlecaps featuring photos of ballplayers, apparently some guy named Whitey Ford was standing atop a hill in the middle of a large field. Jay has been in love with baseball – and all that surrounds it – ever since.
Tony Palladino / Creative Director
Tony Palladino is, simply, one of the all-time greats.
In 1987, he was elected to the Art Directors Hall of Fame.
Born and raised in East Harlem, Tony’s natural facility with pictures enabled him to produce a portfolio that gained him admission to the prestigious High School of Music and Art. After serving in the U.S. Army, Tony returned home and began drawing pictures of the city, as well as drawings for The Nation magazine.
In the 1950’s, he began teaching at the School of Visual Arts. To this day, Tony continues to teach graphic concepts at the school. In addition, he acts as a consultant to many premier advertising agencies and corporations.
His “Psycho” logo, used for the Alfred Hitchcock film in the ‘60’s, remains indelibly ingrained in our minds.
Tony’s works were shortly thereafter shown – for the first time – in the Museum of Modern Art. His body of work has since been shown throughout the world.
Tony is a unique talent whose trade is communication; not in any one medium, but by any means available. Love of images and words, inspired by memory and nostalgia, are the essence of his incredibly innovative oeuvre.
In an age when the values of art have been grossly debased, Tony’s commitment to a communicative but intensely private vision bespeaks an extraordinary talent and a person of unwavering integrity.
His passion for baseball began on a summer day, when Tony and his buddies saw Joe DiMaggio play at Yankee Stadium. After the game ended, he ran on the field, took some of the dirt that DiMaggio stood upon, and put it in his pocket. It is a moment indelibly ingrained in Tony’s mind.
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