Why cantankerous old bloggers need editors

I really want to ask if he was around for the 1969 Red Stockings opener...

Thanks for playing Furman...

 

Wasn't it Bisher who once asked a Japanese golfer who was near the lead at The Masters in the '70s - I believe it was Tommy Nakajima, but that might not be correct - "Where were you on Dec. 7, 1941?"

It's called retirement, Furman. Look into it.

 

he may have been... don drysdale beat gary nolan at crosley field

but maybe not, the reds came to atlanta for the next series

 

And I watched the game on a Sony. Take that, Furman Bisher!!

The greatest part of that is that he actually adds, ",see" to the end of his first paragraph.

 

I give Furman credit for reaching 98 before the Alzheimer's kicked in.

 

I read today in the print version of the AJC that Furman suggest the new Gwinnett minor league team be named the Crackers. A nod to the minor league that played in Atlanta, but not exactly fitting the politically correct mode of this day and age.

Didn't see his column online, though.

 

Second choice would be the Battlin' Jim Crows.

 

To me, it's restoring an ages-old tradition of having the nation's capital's baseball team hosting the opener now that there's a team in the nation's capital again.

 

In Furman's defense, I can seem him holding a grudge. Even the Japs living in American during WWII got free room and board for the entire war while Americans had to tough it out.

 

That's probably it. And Taft wasn't so much throwing the first pitch as he was like a whale lurching toward the catcher. Of course, spnited probably had first hand knowledge of it since he was covering that game.