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 ...

WINONA LAKE, Ind. (WANE) – Mark Twain once wrote that truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. When it comes to Billy Sunday, his truth is a script fit for Hollywood, as ...

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 ...

Preacher and former professional baseball player for the Chicago White Stockings and Philadelphia Phillies Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was never in Dayton in 1925 but his influence on the topic of debate ...

Probably the first people in Heaven who recognized the stocky man in the morning coat and pin-striped trousers were some onetime residents of Kansas City who were singing Brighten the Corner Where You ...

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 ...