Ben Berger (1897 – 1988) was a Minneapolis businessman. He was born in Ostrowiec, Poland and moved to the United States at age 16. He owned movie theaters and cafes in Minneapolis. In 1947, he along with Morris Chalfen bought the Detroit Gems of the National Basketball League. They relocated and renamed the team to Minneapolis Lakers. He co-owned the team until 1957, during those years the Lakers won 6 league titles (1 NBL and 5 BAA/NBA). After he and Chalfen sold the team in 1957 to a group headed by Bob Short, Berger founded a group that worked with recently released convicts helping them readjust to society. Ben Berger owned the sheiks cafe in Minneapolis Minnesota, he was the founder of the Berger Fountain in Minneapolis Minnesota. He had four brothers that he brought from Poland, Sam Berger and Vladimir Berger, Saul and Lazaro Berger. The first two were able to come to the United States, the other two established themselves in Mexico and later on, immigrated to the United States. Ben Berger was survived by one son that resides in Del Mar California, his name is Robert Berger.
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| Name | Berger, Dan |
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| Date of birth | 1897 |
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| Date of death | 1988 |
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Famous quotes containing the words ben and/or berger:
“When long ago I saw her ride
Under Ben Bulben to the meet,
The beauty of her country-side
With all youth’s lonely wildness stirred,
She seemed to have grown clean and sweet
Like any rock-bred, sea-borne bird....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)