He set a number of career American Association records: most games, most plate appearances, most hits, most triples, most total bases.

Apart from his playing exploits, Wolf is well known for an incident that took place on August 22, 1886, when he hit an inside-the-park, walkoff home run against the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

The Reds' outfielder Abner Powell might have been better placed to prevent the run had he not been impeded by an angry dog who had been sleeping next to the fence.

The other two managers to follow, Dan Shannon and Jack Chapman, didn't fare any better, as Louisville won only 27 games that year with 111 losses.

Wolf died in 1903 at the age of 41, from the effects of brain trauma he suffered a few years before in a fire-fighting accident, and is interred at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.