Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe High School Basketball in Illinois

Taylor Bell joined the sports staff of the Champaign-Urbana Courier after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, moved to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and then to the Chicago Daily News. When that paper folded in 1978 he joined the Chicago Sun-Times. He has covered professional sports as well, but found his niche in traveling the state to write about high school sports. Before retiring in 2001, he wrote a column on high school basketball and covered the sport extensively throughout the state. In 2001, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, and in 2002, the Chicagoland Sports Hall of FameBell, Taylor H. A. is the author of 'Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe High School Basketball in Illinois', published 2004 under ISBN 9780252029486 and ISBN 0252029488.