Hello Everybody This Is Cawood Ledford Author:Billy Reed It has been said many times that Cawood Ledford is Kentucky basketball...and Kentucky football...and the Kentucky Derby...and the Final Four. — These statements have become cliché, but only because they are true. Since his days reciting nursery rhymes as a toddler in Eastern Kentucky, Cawood was destined to become a great broadcaster. And ... more »since his first call of a Kentucky football game in the fall of 1953, he has become the definitive "Voice of the Wildcats," witness to, reporter of, participant in some of the greatest events in all of sport.
This is Cawood's story and, indeed, the story of Kentucky athletics, told by that old, familiar voice -- the one that has come over the crackling airways for 39 years, greeting unmet friends with the same pregame salutation, "Hello everybody, this is Cawood Ledford."« less