Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday

William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 in Story County, Iowa – November 6, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American athlete and religious person. He was an outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s. After that he became an influential American Presbyterian evangelist at the start of the 20th century.

Billy Sunday Media

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  Billy Sunday, Center Fielder, Chicago White Stockings, c. 1887

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  Billy Sunday preaches

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  Billy Sunday preaching in 1915 in a temporary tabernacle erected on the site of the future Parkway Central Library of Philadelphia. Painting by George Bellows, based on his illustrations for Metropolitan Magazine

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  Billy Sunday, Evangelist and Baseball Player, [ca. 1910]. Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy Collection, Boston Public Library

• Billy Sunday's tabernacle (Detroit 1916).jpg

  Billy Sunday's tabernacle (Detroit 1916)

• New York City Tabernacle, 1917

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  1911 bungalow in Winona Lake, Indiana

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  Billy Sunday at the White House, 1922

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  Cover of August 1914 issue of The Melting Pot: A Magazine of Protest, edited by Henry M. Tichenor, condemning Sunday as a tool of big business.

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  Tombstones of Billy and Helen Sunday, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois

References

• In Rare Form: A Pictorial History of Baseball Evangelist Billy Sunday. William A. Firstenberger. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2005.

Other websites

• Official Billy Sunday website Archived 2008-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Selected Sermons
• Billy Sunday's grave
• Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis
• Billy Sunday Quotes