Dave Bristol may be remembered for being the manager that Braves owner Ted Turner replaced for one game in 1977. But the one-time Georgia Tech football signee spent 44 years in professional baseball, has always been admired by his peers, and was the manager in Cincinnati that created the early editions of The Big Red Machine that would win two world championships.
Bristol was born in Macon but lived in Andrews, N.C., which has been his home for 83 years. He was sent to the Baylor School in Chattanooga in the 1940s, a prep academy where he played baseball and football and signed with Tech.