Today’s Free Press Flashback recounts an extended visit to Detroit by the entertaining Billy Sunday, America’s best-known evangelist of the World War I era. Beginning in the 1890s, Billy Sunday, a ...
Billy Sunday mixed baseball and the Bible in a way that attracted crowds every time he spoke. Nearly 1,000 people came to meet his train when the plain-speaking evangelist arrived in Cape Gir-ardeau ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Billy Sunday was the most successful preacher of his time. Once a professional baseball player, he turned to religion ...