Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93
In this 2001 file photo, Atlanta Journal Constitution sports columnist Furman Bisher sits in an empty Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. Bisher died Sunday, March 18, 2012, of a massive heart attack. He was 93. Credit: AP
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Bisher's death on its website Sunday evening. Former AJC editor Jim Minter said family members told him that Bisher had planned to watch golf at home on Sunday but complained of feeling ill, at which point his wife, Lynda, called 911. He died at a nearby hospital.
"He put more quality words on newsprint than any other writer in the last half of the 20th century," Minter said Sunday, according to the newspaper. "He never wrote a bad column."
Bisher retired in 2009 after 59 years at the newspaper, writing his final column on the same typewriter he used in 1950. -- AP
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