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.

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Billy Sunday, Center Fielder, Chicago White Stockings, c. 1887
Billy Sunday preaches
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
Billy Sunday, Evangelist and Baseball Player, [ca. 1910]. Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy Collection, Boston Public Library
Billy Sunday's tabernacle (Detroit 1916)
New York City Tabernacle, 1917
1911 bungalow in Winona Lake, Indiana
Billy Sunday at the White House, 1922
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.
Tombstones of Billy and Helen Sunday, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois