To walk downstairs in Jim and Pat Host’s south Lexington home is to travel back into the history of sports, both in Kentucky and nationally.
Jim Host, 80, the longtime Lexington-based college sports marketing and radio broadcasting mogul, has the walls of his basement covered with sports and broadcasting pictures — every one of which has a story.
There, a youngish Cawood Ledford, the iconic University of Kentucky radio sports broadcaster, stands with Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers legend and pioneer of baseball integration.
Host believes the picture was taken in the early 1960s, when Robinson visited Louisville — where Ledford was then working as a sportscaster for WHAS radio and television — during the Civil Rights era.