Baseball Hall of Fame digitizes work of iconic broadcaster Bob Wolff
Wolff’s News 12 career started in the mid-1980s but his career covering baseball started in Washington in the 1940s.
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When Bob Wolff was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995, he said it was like going to heaven before he died.
Wolff’s News 12 career started in the mid-1980s but his career covering baseball started in Washington in the 1940s.
Wolff did the play-by-play and hosted pregame shows for 60 years - and he saved copies of everything he did.
“The quality and the quantity is just massive. You’re talking about hundreds and hundreds of hours of these films,” says Craig Mulder, Baseball Hall of Fame director of communications.
In the 1970s, Wolff quietly started donating his films to the Hall of Fame. And now the man who helped to pioneer baseball on TV is going online. The Baseball Hall of Fame has digitized Wolff’s entire film collection and is now sharing them on its YouTube channel.
“There’s such neat guys who show up on these films that Bob had access to at the time,” says Mulder.
Highlights include Ted Williams talking about hitting and Whitey Ford discussing the art of pitching.
“We're still finding pieces of these films that can be extracted,” Mulder says.
There will be about 50 films in all, featuring an all-star lineup of players.
