If you grew up reading The Sporting News when it was still “The Bible of Baseball”, you no doubt read many years’ worth of columns by Furman Bisher, who also wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Furman Bisher, Longtime Sports Columnist, Dies At 93
The North Carolina native was a sports columnist in Atlanta for nearly 60 years.
On Sunday, Bisher died from a massive heart attack.
Bisher, originally from North Carolina, wrote about many sports including baseball, and wrote two baseball books, one about the Braves moving to Atlanta and another about Henry Aaron. He's credited with helping bring professional sports to Atlanta; no such teams existed before 1966. He wrote for the Journal-Constitution for nearly six decades:
Bisher spent 59 years with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before retiring in 2009. He wrote his final column on the same typewriter he used when he started in 1950 as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal.Just before he came to Atlanta in 1950, he got one of the biggest stories of his career:
One of the biggest “scoops” of his career occurred in 1949, when “Shoeless” Joe Jackson gave Bisher and Sport Magazine his only interview since 1919, the year Jackson was ousted from baseball in the “Black Sox” scandal.Furman Bisher was 93 years old.
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