Museum’s Bob Wolff Film Collection Available Digitally Online
(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – For nearly 20 years, Bob Wolff called the biggest baseball games of the year on radio and television.
Today, the legendary broadcaster’s legacy lives on through filmed interviews with the stars of the era that Wolff donated to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Wolff, the Hall of Fame’s 1995 Ford C. Frick Award winner who passed away in 2017, was the voice of the Washington Senators from 1947-60 and the Minnesota Twins in 1961 before moving on to call NBC’s Game of the Week for four seasons. During his time in baseball, Wolff interviewed players, managers, executives and umpires throughout the game for pregame segments.
In 1972, Wolff donated film from his collection to the Hall of Fame and made successive gifts in 1975, 1976, 2002 and 2006. With the help of Museum supporters, these films have been digitized and many are now available on the Museum’s YouTube Channel.
These films include segments with Hall of Famers Whitey Ford, Nellie Fox, Al López and Ted Williams along with stars of the time like Harvey Kuenn, Billy Martin, Bob Turley and Vic Wertz. More segments will be available online in the coming weeks.
“The interviews in the Bob Wolff Collection represent a treasury of images and audio from baseball legends of the 1950s and 60s,” said Josh Rawitch, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. “As part of our mission to share the game’s history with a vast audience, we are thrilled to make these films available on digital channels, preserving the first-hand accounts of the game from Bob Wolff’s legendary career.”
Funded by donations from baseball fans around the country and the world, the Bob Wolff Collection is one of many projects powered by the Hall of Fame’s Our Museum in Action initiative.
Additional Bob Wolff tapes are preserved at the Library of Congress.
For a complete list of films in the Bob Wolff Collection in Cooperstown, please email the Hall of Fame Library at research@baseballhall.org.