daily sports columns, 1,200 magazine articles and more than a dozen books. Until the age of 90, Bisher held seniority over the hundreds of golf reporters and other sports journalists who descend on Augusta, Georgia, each April for the Masters Tournament. During the 2006 tournament, The Golf Channel profiled Bisher as the "dean" of Masters journalists. Bisher covered every Kentucky Derby since 1950, and every Super Bowl but the first. Death Bisher died from a heart attack on March 18, 2012. He was survived by his second wife Lynda and two of his three sons from his first marriage. Bibliography Bisher, Furman, Aaron, Crowell, New York (1968). Bisher, Furman, The Birth of A Legend: Arnold Palmer's Golden Year 1960, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1972). Bisher, Furman, The Furman Bisher Collection, Taylor Publishing, Dallas, Texas (1989). Bisher, Furman, The Masters: Augusta Revisited–An Intimate View, Oxmoor House, Birmingham, Alabama (1976). Bisher, Furman, Miracle in Atlanta: the Atlanta Braves Story, World Publishing Co. (1966). Bisher, Furman, Strange But True Baseball Stories, Random House, New York, New York (1966). Bisher, Furman, with introduction by Bing Crosby, With a Southern Exposure, Thomas Nelson Publishing, New York, New York (1962). References External links Bisher Unleashed – Furman Bisher's weblog " This is the Truth!" – BlackBetsy.com reprint of 1949 Shoeless Joe Jackson interview 1918 births 2012 deaths American columnists American sportswriters Golf writers and broadcasters Writers from Atlanta People from Denton, North Carolina Red Smith Award recipients University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Writers from North Carolina