[6] Fisher was a native of Brooklyn, New York, lived in West Newton, Massachusetts, and was Jewish.

[1] Fisher was the basketball coach of the Boys High School Kangaroos in Brooklyn for 23 years in the 1940s, 1950s, and into the 1960s.

[9][10][5][1] Five of the teams he coached won the New York City Public School Athletic League basketball championship, four of them in the six years from 1957 to 1962.

[1][12] At the same time, Fisher was known for guiding and developing his players, taking interest in their schoolwork, home lives, and friends.

[14][1][15] In April 1963 he died at 58 years of age in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital of a heart attack.