Books By William S. Bike

The Forgotten 1970 Chicago Cubs: Go And Glow

Chicago Cubs fans always will remember the beloved 1969 team. Yet the 1970 Cubs are, in many ways, more interesting.

The Cubs added fascinating characters like Joe Pepitone and Milt Pappas to the legendary nucleus of Billy Williams, Ron Santo, and Ernie Banks. The team came closer than in any year between 1945 and 1984—finishing only five games out of first place in one of baseball’s hottest pennant races.

Offering a fast-paced look at the season month by month, William S. Bike moves beyond wins, losses and statistics to relive Ernie Banks’s 500th home run, the addition of “the basket” to the outfield walls, and other iconic moments from a landmark year at Wrigley Field. You’ll feel like you’re there at the ballpark when you read The Forgotten 1970 Chicago Cubs: Go And Glow.

Winning Political Campaigns (Third Edition)

E-edition of the classic award-winning how-to book on all aspects of campaigning.

Particularly useful are the numerous checklists and appendices and new sections on social media, digital advertising, and other new aspects of campaigning. “The definitive ‘how to’ handbook for planning, organizing, and implementing a successful campaign for elective office,” said Midwest Book Review.

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Winning Political Campaigns (First and Second Editions)

Print editions of the classic award-winning how-to book on all aspects of campaigning.

You will find yourself underlining sentences and marking passages throughout. “From a practical, political operations standpoint, it is the best book out, yet,” said reviewer Hank Landa of PoliticalBookReviews.com.

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Essays on Earl Renfroe–A Man of Firsts

A biography of a man whom African-American history expert Dr. Claude Driskell wrote “belongs in the same category” with Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Essays on Earl Renfroe tells the story of Dr. Earl W. Renfroe, a University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry professor who was considered the top clinical orthodontist in the world for many years. He also was the first African-American in Illinois licensed as a commercial airline pilot and a Brigadier General in the Illinois National Guard.
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Streets of the Near West Side

Learn about the historic streets of one of Chicago’s most fascinating neighborhoods.

Streets of the Near West Side tells the stories of whom and what 57 of the area’s thoroughfares were named. The book also features news of events that happened in the area, from long-ago tales of the Chicago Cubs playing on Polk Street, to news pertinent to today’s headlines. Learn which street is named for a U.S. President who liked to swim in the nude and which is named for a bicycle racer who created Chicago’s expressway system.

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