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"The Con Edison Scholastic Sports Awards"
with Bob Wolff
Sun 9:30am-10am

Bob Wolff is the longest running broadcaster in television and radio history. He is one of two broadcasters to be honored by both the Baseball and Basketball Halls of Fame. Wolff has also been induction into Madison Square Garden’s Walk of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, Sigma Nu Fraternity Hall of Fame and many others.

Bob has been a professional broadcaster for nine decades and is still going strong. Seen and heard on two ESPN TV specials in 2008, he’s been on the Madison Square Garden Network since 1954 and on Cablevision’s News 12 Long Island since 1986.

Bob became the pioneer TV voice of the Washington Senators Baseball Club in 1947, moved with the team to Minnesota in 1961 and then joined NBC as the play-by-play man on the TV Baseball Game-of-the-Week in 1962.

In 1956, Bob was selected to be a World Series broadcaster and called the Don Larsen perfect game across the country on the Mutual Broadcast System and around the world on the Armed Forces radio. He was also on NBC Radio for the World Series in 1958 and 1961.

Bob has been seen and heard doing play-by-play on all the major TV networks. Another of his classic broadcasts was the NY Giants/Baltimore Colts NFL Championship Game in 1958, which was hailed as “The Greatest Game Ever Played”. On the collegiate scene, he's broadcast the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Gator Bowl and many others.

Bob was also the 33-year play-by-play announcer of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the National Horse Show, the Garden's college and pro basketball & hockey games, men and women's tennis, track and boxing events as well as gymnastics and bowling. He did soccer games for the Tampa Bay Rowdies.

Bob is proud to be hosting the “Con Edison Scholastic Sports Awards” for the last 35 years.

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