Long before Bob Wolff called Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game, Alan Ameche’s overtime touchdown for the Baltimore Colts in the 1958 NFL championship game and loss after loss for the old Washington Senators, he broadcast Duke baseball games for WDNC.
Having come to Duke to play baseball for coach Jack Coombs, Wolff injured his ankle as a sophomore and instead joined the broadcast team as a student in 1939.
That began what the Guinness Book of World Records called history’s broadcasting career. Wolff died on Saturday at his home in South Nyack, New York.