Born in New York City, he was the second of four sons of Harry Scharaga Sherry and Mildred “Minnie” (Walman) Sherry. Both sides of the family were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and his maternal great-grandfather was a rabbi. The families escaped separately from anti-semitic pogroms. Some of his relatives who settled in Europe were killed in the Holocaust. His paternal grandparents, Max and Sarah Scharaga, came to the United States in 1898, and around 1920 his father changed their surname to Sherry. His father worked in the dry cleaning business, and his mother Mildred was a seamstress and milliner. The Sherry family moved to Los Angeles during the early 1930s.\n', '

Sherry attended Fairfax High School, and signed with the Dodgers while they were still in their original home of Brooklyn in 1950.\n', '

His brothers, George and Larry Sherry, were pitchers in professional baseball, with Larry having a successful MLB career as a relief pitcher and was the Most Valuable Player of the 1959 World Series; he was Norm\'s teammate from 1959 through 1962 and on May 7, 1960, they became the first all-Jewish battery in Major League Baseball history.\n', '

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