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Furman Bisher has died at 93

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by jemaz, Mar 18, 2012.

  1. jaredk

    jaredk Member

    Divorce happened.

    Kindred mentions the late love in Furman's life...
    http://sportsjournalism.org/sports-media-news/a-life-gone-too-soon-a-sportswriting-legend-that-lives-on/
     
  2. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Great stuff Michelle
     
  3. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    I had the pleasure of serving on a Shoeless Joe Jackson panel with Furman two years ago. We did the smartest thing possible: basically gave Furman the mic and let him go. I could have listened to him tell baseball stories for hours.

    And I could read stories about him, like those above by Hinton and Schultz and Hiskey and Bradley, for hours, too. Thanks for sharing, y'all.

    (But please, one correction to this oft-repeated claim: Furman did not get the only post-Black Sox interview of Joe Jackson in 1949. Shirley Povich, Scoop Latimer, Joe Williams and others interviewed Jackson, too, between the years 1919 and '49. Furman did, however, get the last major sit-down interview with Jackson before the latter's death in 1951.)
     
  4. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

  5. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    Michelle, that's a great column. People who post their own work on here either have big egos or have said something worthwhile. Yours is squarely in the second category. Thank you.
     
  6. I'm just dumb enough to post under my own name ! Thanks for reading the piece. Hopefully someone (Mr. Kindred??) will post about the Masters press room, if anything is done to mark his passing.
     
  7. Dave Kindred

    Dave Kindred Member

    First, hooray for Michelle. She knew the Furman everyone should have known.

    The Augusta people will acknowledge Furman's life. It will be done, I believe, in a way he'd love.

    Because I'm teaching, I won't get to my seat until Wednesday. Someone will report before then. If not, I will. For years now, I've been in the seat to his right. I know this: it will be a while before the room seems full.
     
  8. gingerbread

    gingerbread Well-Known Member

    What a lovely remembrance.
    This part especially struck me as such a simple but poignant observation by Michelle:

    I liked how he mentioned the absence of buttermilk on restaurant menus. When some sports radio guys mocked him, I bristled. We all hold onto something now that one day will judge us as old; the longer that Furman bore witness to what he saw and felt and cared about, the more boldness that required.
    No wonder most people retire.
     
  9. I've heard that a floppy Masters hat similar to the one Furman used to wear was left at his media center seat C11.
     
  10. Dave Kindred

    Dave Kindred Member

    As his wife left Furman's old yellow Masters bucket hat on his casket during the funeral service, Augusta National has left such a hat on a stand at his seat in the press building.

    Alex Micelli has tweeted a photo (forgive him the misspelling).
    http://campl.us/iy5B
     
  11. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Then again, you misspelled Miceli's name. ;D
     
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