BOB WOLFF FILM COLLECTION

Featuring hours of interview footage harkening to baseball’s golden age.

Bob 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.

The legendary broadcaster’s legacy lives on through dozens of now-digitized interviews with the baseball stars of the 1950s and ’60s.

The Digital Preservation of the Bob Wolff Film Collection was made possible by:

 

Tom Irvin

and

John Wolff

 

With additional support from:

Matthew Nelson

John Sadak

John Stabile

Missy and Benj Wolff

Robert R. Wolff, MD

 

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“I believe that this interview... is the most revealing study of the big slugger which has been put on film,” promises Frick Award-winning broadcaster Bob Wolff. The Splendid Splinter lived up to the top billing in a wide-ranging discussion with Wolff.

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INSIDE THE COLLECTION

In Washington, Bob Wolff was the toast of the town. He not only did the play-by-play of the Senators, he also starred in both their pregame and postgame 15 minute TV shows, simultaneously hosted their recorded pregame and postgame radio shows, broadcast a nightly TV and radio sports show, syndicated his TV baseball interview shows to other big league cities, wrote a syndicated baseball column and headed the Knothole Gang.

During his time in baseball, Wolff interviewed players, managers, executives and umpires throughout the game for pregame segments. The list of interviews within the Bob Wolff Film Collection is vast and deep, including such figures as Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Nellie Fox, Casey Stengel, Ted Williams and many more.

In 1972, Wolff donated film from his collection to the Hall of Fame and made successive gifts in 1975, 1976, 2002 and 2006. These films have been digitized with the help of Museum supporters.

Stay tuned as interviews are released each week on the Museum’s YouTube Channel.

This program allows fans to support specific preservation and conservation projects that have been identified as priorities by the team caring for our collections.

You can explore the projects, including artifacts, photographs, library documents and exhibit updates that are in need of support.

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“

I think people have always recognized an honest emotion in what I’ve done and know I’m enjoying a game as much as they are.

— Bob Wolff • 1995 Ford C. Frick Award Winner
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For a complete list of films in the Bob Wolff Collection in Cooperstown, please email the Hall of Fame Library at research@baseballhall.org.