The Wexner Center will show a rare collection of Baseball Hall of Fame clips today and Saturday at 7 p.m.

The project is spearheaded by Dave Filipi, curator of the Wexner Center. With cooperation from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Filipi began editing old baseball footage four years ago.

Each year since, he has released new footage to Ohio State students coinciding with the start of the new baseball season.

Filipi has been a Minnesota Twins fan since his first game in 1975.

“I am a pretty big baseball fan,” he said. “I have always wanted to do a film series like this.”

The film, “Rare Films From the Baseball Hall of Fame,” runs about 120 minutes.

It features decades-old footage of baseball players appearing in commercials and interviews, beginning with legendary Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller doing a Quaker State commercial. The film also includes rarely seen newsreels and clubhouse movies.

Throughout the years, Filipi has presented similar footage at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Northwestern University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

At each location, he tailors the footage to the fans who are watching, such as including more Indians clips when he’s visiting Cleveland.

Students who are interested can purchase discounted tickets for $5 with their BuckID. Erik Pepple, a spokesman for the Wexner Center, said even though tickets should be available until showtime, visitors should plan to arrive early because a solid turnout is expected.

Filipi said the film will attract a different crowd, including people who might have never been to the Wexner Center.

“That’s what is so great about this,” he said. “People bring their kids, their families, and they just enjoy it.”

Pepple mentioned that besides the baseball project, there haven’t been many sports showings at the Wexner Center. Last year there was a series of football-themed films shown, but no other sports films that have been originally edited by Filipi.

Filipi’s plan to edit classic OSU football clips is stalled because he hasn’t been given access to footage, although he has spoken to the person in charge of its organization.

“Somewhere along the way, that footage was moved into another building, and they are not sure where everything is,” Filipi said.

He has also approached the College Football Hall of Fame, which expressed moderate interest.

Filipi doesn’t know what he will do in the future, but he knows he enjoys this project enough to continue working on it.

“There would be nothing like this anywhere,” he said. “I’m having fun doing it.”

Graham can be reached at [email protected].