Red Fisher (sportsman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American sports goods businessman
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Place of Birth: United States of America, United States
About Red Fisher (sportsman)
- Bernard Herbert "Red" Fisher (18 February 1914 – 5 May 2006) was an American sporting goods retailer, U.S.
- naval and United States Coast Guard officer, newspaper columnist, and poet.
- With his gruff voice, he later became a popular radio and television personality in Canada. When he moved to Canada in 1963, he launched what would become a popular radio talk show program The Red Fisher Show which moved to television in 1968.
- The TV version was set at fictitious "Scuttlebutt Lodge" and featured silent home movies of outdoors activities, often involving fishing, which involved high-profile guests, mainly from the major league sports of the era.
- Such guests included ice hockey stars Gordie Howe, Eddie Shack, and Johnny Bower, and baseball players Ted Williams, Roger Maris and Ferguson Jenkins.
- The Red Fisher Show differed from other outdoor living shows of its time by promoting nature conservation, game preservation and the "catch and release" mentality.
- The series continued until 1989, making it among the longest-running on CTV.
- The series was an inspiration for the comedy television series The Red Green Show. At the same time, his weekly column, Outdoor Topics, was read in over 180 newspapers.
- In 1971, Fisher's first book of poems, Poems of Our Great Outdoors, was published and distributed.
- Red Fisher would famously give each guest on his show a copy of these poems.
- Three editions of Poems of Our Great Outdoors were released, each one simply adding more poems to the previous collection.
- Red released a record on Saga Records also called Poems of Our Great Outdoors in which he read his poems to a symphonic background. Fisher was inducted into the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in 1988.
- In 2000, he released a collection of stories and anecdotes from his life called Tight Lines and Tall Tales (ISBN 9780968976104).
- A portion of the profits were donated to outdoor conservation efforts. Fisher died in Chatham, Ontario at the age of 92.
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