'John Wolff' tagged blog posts in The latest news from Janet Hanson

Everyone has been anxious to forget 2008 which could have been dubbed annus horribilis. Not me.  There were two people who made 2008 one of the best years ever for our family — John Wolff and Ali Fieber. 

John and Ali came into our lives at almost exactly the same time. Ali transformed Chris Hanson from being a sad, anguished 17 year old into someone who was happy and who believed in the healing powers of love. 

John Wolff swung for the fences.  He was a Harvard grad, a professional baseball player, and an entrepreneur.  And he was irreverent and charming and…

I recently met John Wolff, a spectacular young man who comes from the Wolff baseball dynasty. His grandfather, Bob Wolff, was a legendary sportscaster who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995 as one of the greatest to ever broadcast the game. I am hoping that my good friend Suzyn Waldman will be inducted as she is a complete rockstar in her own right. Suzyn broadcasts the Yankee games on the radio along with John Sterling — I’ll save her amazing story for a future blog.

John’s father Rick was drafted in 1972 in his junior year at Harvard to play for the Detroit Tigers. …