- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Furman Bisher (b. 1918)
- Creator:
- Reese, Krista
- Date of Original:
- 2006-10-19
- Subject:
- Sportswriters--Georgia--Atlanta
Journalists--Georgia--Atlanta
Editors--Georgia--Atlanta
Bisher, Furman
Authors, American--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Furman Bisher. Furman Bisher, a well-regarded sportswriter and editor, has been the Atlanta Journal-Constitution sports editor, a Sporting News columnist, and the contributor of hundreds of articles for Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, and many other national magazines. Author of several books, including a biography of baseball great Hank Aaron, Bisher was named in a 1961 Time article as one of the nation's five best columnists. He has covered the Masters Tournament in Augusta, every Kentucky Derby since 1950, and every Super Bowl but the first. He watched the first NASCAR race as an editor in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he is credited with helping to bring the Braves baseball team, Atlanta's first professional sports team, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Atlanta. Bisher chronicles the Braves acquisition in his second book, Miracle in Atlanta (1966).
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/people/furman-bisher-1918-2012/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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