He was also a top junior-soccer player and played fullback for Monkstown in rugby's Leinster Senior Cup.
Two other brothers, Augustine (Railway Union) and Gerard (Pembroke) also played senior cricket.
Stanley was only fourteen when he made his first XI debut in a side sporting several internationals including the William brothers.
A small, wiry batsmen who always wore glasses, Bergin was particularly strong square of the wicket, but the hallmark of his game was his concentration.
His career average of 36.9 was the record when he retired from cricket, and is still good enough to make the top ten all-time LCU batsmen.
A journalist by trade, he was cricket correspondent for The Irish Times and the Evening Herald, and also wrote about Gaelic Games.
Several of his sons continued the cricketing tradition in Castle Avenue after his untimely death and Brendan represented North Leinster in the 1980s.