To say that long-time Atlanta sportswriter Furman Bisher was legendary is putting it mildly...
One of the best wordsmiths around, Bisher leaves us at the age of 93 after suffering what was called a "massive heart attack."
He was someone who could write circles around all of us and covered every event the globe could host short of the Antarctic trek...
Bisher, probably, was there too. He just never wrote about it.
But he was more than a writer and columnist. He was a standard-bearer, along with Jesse Outlar, to give opinions in the days of a two-newspaper town when the city of Atlanta had both the Journal and the Constitution before their merger.
He was unabashedly left-handed and gave scholarships for lefties. He was an encyclopedia of knowledge and memories that spanned 70 years back- dating back 59 years with the Atlanta papers. Bisher would camp out under trees and watch golfers go by as preparation to tell his stories, and would adjust to life after the newspaper by developing his own blog...
But his loss is a deep gap for those coming up in the business- the art of writing loses another artist...
Plain and simple...
Here's a small sample of what he means to the fabric of the state of Georgia and the business... courtesy of Senator Johnny Isakson and his own Youtube channel from 2009...after his health-care discussion...
Selah...
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