Claude Sullivan

Claude Howard Sullivan was an American sports broadcaster, born in Winchester, Kentucky, on December 29, 1924. For nearly twenty years, he did the play-by-play broadcasts of the University of Kentucky football and basketball games. He was associated with Lexington radio station WVLK, and was appointed Director of Programming by the station, as well as his sports broadcasting duties.

In 1964, he was hired to work with Waite Hoyt as broadcaster of the Cincinnati Reds baseball games. When Hoyt retired in 1965, Sullivan took over the primary play-by-play responsibilities.^[1] But after two years, Sullivan was diagnosed with throat cancer, and died in December 6, 1967, at the age of 42.

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