Robert “Bob” Witt started his baseball career while in high school, playing on two North Carolina state championship teams. He then played two years in the North Carolina Industrial Semi-Pro League after graduation, and was named to the All-State and tournament All-Star teams as a shortstop both years.

Bob was signed by Mickey Cochrane to a contract with the Detroit Tigers. He played professionally with Bristol, Tenn., in the Appalachian League, with Utica, N.Y., in the Canadian-American League, and with Hagerstown Owls in the Interstate League. That year, the Owls won the league championship. Bob led the league in fielding and was named an All-Star at shortstop. In 1942, he was calling Hagerstown home after marrying a local girl.

Witt then served four years in the U.S. Army. During World War II, while serving in Europe, Bob formed a team of major leaguers and played all over Europe. He managed and played on a team that participated in the ‘European World Series’ in Hitler’s Stadium in Nuremburg, Germany, with 60,000 GIs in attendance.

Bob returned to Hagerstown and for three years was a manager-player for Boonsboro in the Washington County League, winning the championship each year and being named the league’s MVP once.

Bob played with the Keedy’s Insurance softball team that won the Washington County championship with an undefeated record. They also played in the Maryland State Championship tournament, and finished with an overall record of 27-2.

Bob was a manager and umpire at Federal Little League for 12 years. He umpired at the league, district, state and regional levels and was once invited to umpire at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., but was unable to attend.

Bob coached two years in the Hagerstown PONY League, six years in the Hagerstown Junior Basketball League and two years with Hagerstown’s ‘Cabineers’ semi-pro basketball team, which played against traveling professional teams, losing only three games over the two years — including one to the Harlem Globetrotters.

Bob played on a Fountain Head golf team that won the Baltimore Division and lost in the finals of the Maryland State Golf Association team championship. He was golf chairman at Fountain Head for six years, served eight years on the Board of Directors as the vice president of the MSGA, served as MSGA president for one year and had spent three years as executive director of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association at the time of his induction.