Lest we forget: Furman Bisher

March 19, 2012 · 1 comment

One of the legends of the sportswriting world passed away yesterday at the age of 93.

Bisher began writing for the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 1950, retiring in 2009. he began his newspaper career in 1938 at the Lumberton Voice in North Carolina. I recall him from his work as a region writer covering the Braves in The Sporting News. His work has also appeared in Sports Illustrated and other national publications.

His baseball book oeuvre includes Strange But true Baseball Stories and serving as a collaborator with Hank Aaron on two autobiographies: Aaron in 1974 and Aaron, R.F. in 1969, as well as  Miracle in Atlanta: the Atlanta Braves Story in 1966.

Like many “retired” sportswriters, Bisher continued to put out columns via a blog. His last article was posted this past January.

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1 Rslitman March 19, 2012 at 9:33 pm

Ironically, I was just thinking about him the other day. I subscribed to The Sporting News in the 1970s, and he was a contributing columnist. I’m reading a novel set in what I believe is a ficticious place called Furman County, and the name Furman Bisher came into my head. I had to think hard about where I had heard it before. I remembered that he was based in Atlanta. I think I also once had a library book about the Braves that he wrote.

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