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783: 2136:, 1915. Sandburg wrote, "You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist and calling us all dam fools so fierce the froth slobbers over your lips...always blabbing we're all going to hell straight off and you know all about it...Go ahead and bust all the chairs you want to. Smash a whole wagon load of furniture at every performance. Turn sixty somersaults and stand on your nutty head. If it wasn't for the way you scare the women and kids I'd feel sorry for you and pass the hat. I like to watch a good four-flusher work, but not when he starts people puking and calling for the doctors." Sunday also appears in some modern fiction, both as an historical touchstone and as a metaphorical figure. For example, 778:

if the sermon on amusements had been preached to grown folks, there might have been an excuse for them, and perhaps good from them. But an experienced newspaper reporter told me that the sermon on amusements was "the rawest thing ever put over in Syracuse." I can not, must not, quote from this sermon.... says that Mr. Sunday's sermon on the sex question was raw and disgusting. He also heard the famous sermons on amusements and booze. says that all in all they were the ugliest, nastiest, most disgusting addresses he ever listened to from a religious platform or a preacher of religion. He saw people carried out who had fainted under that awful definition of sensuality and depravity.

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one modern historian estimates the true figure to be closer to 1,250,000. Sunday did not preach to a hundred million different individuals but to many of the same people repeatedly over the course of a campaign. Before his death, Sunday estimated that he had preached nearly 20,000 sermons, an average of 42 per month from 1896 to 1935. During his heyday, when he was preaching more than twenty times each week, his crowds were often huge. Even in 1923, well into the period of his decline, 479,300 people attended the 79 meetings of the six-week 1923

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meetings), and locals had to put up the money for them in advance. This change in Sunday's operation began to push the finances of the campaign to the fore. At least at first, raising tabernacles provided good public relations for the coming meetings as townspeople joined in what was effectively a giant barnraising. Sunday built rapport by participating in the process, and the tabernacles were also a status symbol, because they had previously been built only for major evangelists such as Chapman.

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the moment right, he would launch into his message. Sunday gyrated, stood on the pulpit, ran from one end of the platform to the other, and dove across the stage, pretending to slide into home plate. Sometimes he even smashed chairs to emphasize his points. His sermon notes had to be printed in large letters so that he could catch a glimpse of them as he raced by the pulpit. In messages attacking sexual sin to groups of men only, Sunday could be graphic for the era.

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death, with torment beyond it—intensified by examples of the frightful deathbeds of those who have carelessly or obdurately put off salvation until it is too late—it is with this mighty menace that he drives sinners into the fold." But Sunday himself told reporters "with ill-concealed annoyance" that his revivals had "no emotionalism." Caricatures compared him to the extravagances of mid-nineteenth-century camp meetings, as in the famous drawing "Billy Sunday" by

675: 827: 44: 1142:. Sunday condemned capitalists "whose private lives are good, but whose public lives are very bad", as well as those "who would not pick the pockets of one man with the fingers of their hand" but who would "without hesitation pick the pockets of eighty million people with fingers of their monopoly or commercial advantage." Sunday expressed sympathy for the poor and tried to bridge the gulf between the races during the zenith of the 891: 161: 691:. For the next twelve years Sunday preached in approximately seventy communities, most of them in Iowa and Illinois. Sunday referred to these towns as the "kerosene circuit" because, unlike Chicago, most were not yet electrified. Towns often booked Sunday meetings informally, sometimes by sending a delegation to hear him preach and then telegraphing him while he was holding services somewhere else. 748: 2455:

grandchildren, in turn, contracted five marriages that resulted in only one great-grandchild, who apparently died childless. The great-grandchild, Marquis Ashley Sunday, was killed by his lover in San Francisco on March 22, 1982. Therefore, fifty years after his death, Sunday had no known living descendants. Dorsett, 126–130. Firstenberger, 136–137, gives the genealogical details.

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severe chest pain that spread to both arms. A doctor was called, and he prescribed an ice pack for Sunday's chest. Sunday's pain subsided, and his pulse improved. The doctor left to keep evening appointments with other patients, promising to return. As Nell sat by his side answering letters, Sunday said, "I'm getting dizzy, Ma!" Those were his last words. Nell Sunday, 35–38.

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Anson of the Chicago team had an aunt in Marshalltown that I became a big leaguer." Cap "had Aunt Emma there and she was greatly interested in seeing me progress in baseball. She praised my playing to Anson, told him I was about the fastest fielder on earth and insisted that he give me a chance with Chicago and he agreed." Rosenberg, 132.

950:, where they vacationed for several years. Although the property sported only a rustic cabin, reporters called it a "ranch." Sunday was a soft touch with money and gave away much of his earnings. Neither of the Sundays were extravagant spenders. Although Sunday enjoyed driving, the couple never owned a car. In 1911, the Sundays moved to 1154:, Sunday's partner and music director, Homer Rodeheaver, told Klansmen who briefly interrupted the service that "he did not believe that any organization that marched behind the Cross of Christ and the American Flag could be anything but a power for good." Sunday himself praised Klansmen who assisted the police in vice raids. 723:

to handle household responsibilities, the needs of four children (including a newborn), and the long-distance emotional welfare of her husband. His ministry was also expanding, and he needed an administrator. In 1908, the Sundays decided to entrust their children to a nanny so that Nell could manage the revival campaigns.

666:. Chapman also critiqued Sunday's own attempts at evangelistic preaching and showed him how to put a good sermon together. Further, Chapman encouraged Sunday's theological development, especially by emphasizing the importance of prayer and by helping to "reinforce Billy's commitment to conservative biblical Christianity." 2186:"Men who will gladly draw their check for $ 10,000 and give it a child's hospital see nothing ridiculous in the fact that the $ 10,000 for the child's hospital came of out of $ 200,000 made from a system of child labor which crushes more children in one year than the hospital will heal in ten." Quoted in McLoughlin, 145. 536:, playing a full season for the first time in his career. The crowds in Pittsburgh took to Sunday immediately; one reporter wrote that "the whole town is wild over Sunday." Although Pittsburgh had a losing team during the 1888 and 1889 seasons, Sunday performed well in center field and was among the league leaders in 425:, five weeks after the birth of his youngest son, William Ashley. Mary Jane Sunday and her children moved in with her parents for a few years, and young Billy became close to his grandparents and especially his grandmother. Mary Jane Sunday later remarried, but her second husband soon deserted the family. 1370:

Knickerbocker, 45–47; Firstenberger, 18. Sunday had been uncomfortable with this race and tried to withdraw. Anson persuaded Sunday to run because a great deal of money had been bet on the outcome, some of it put up by Sunday's teammates. In later years he regretted having been involved in a gambling

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Nevertheless, even as the crowds declined during the last 15 years of his life, Sunday continued accepting preaching invitations and speaking with effect. In early 1935, he had a mild heart attack, and his doctor advised him to stay out of the pulpit. Sunday ignored the advice. He died on November 6,

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Over the course of his career, Sunday probably preached to more than one hundred million people face-to-face—and, to the great majority, without electronic amplification. Vast numbers "hit the sawdust trail." Although the usual total given for those who came forward at invitations is an even million,

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Homer Rodeheaver said that "One of these sermons, until he tempered it down a little, had one ten-minute period in it where from two to twelve men fainted and had to be carried out every time I heard him preach it." Some religious and social leaders criticized Sunday's exaggerated gestures as well as

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Many of the things said and done bordered upon things prohibited in decent society. The sermon on amusements was preached three times, to mixed audience of men and women, boys and girls. If the sermons to women had been preached to married women, if the sermons to men had been preached to mature men,

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When Sunday began to attract crowds larger than could be accommodated in rural churches or town halls, he pitched rented canvas tents. Again, Sunday did much of the physical work of putting them up, manipulating ropes during storms, and seeing to their security by sleeping in them at night. Not until

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was .248 over 499 games, about the median for the 1880s. In his best season, in 1887, Sunday hit .291, ranking 17th in the league. He was an exciting but inconsistent fielder. In the days before outfielders wore gloves, Sunday was noted for thrilling catches featuring long sprints and athletic dives,

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Sunday's personality, demeanor, and athleticism made him popular with the fans, as well as with his teammates. Manager Cap Anson considered Sunday reliable enough to make him the team's business manager, which included such duties as handling the ticket receipts and paying the team's travel expenses.

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Although Sunday was a firm creationist, he believed that the seven days of creation were indeterminate periods and not literal 24-hour days. As proof Sunday quoted 2 Peter 3:8 that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack", (sermon)

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includes a character named Mike Monday, "the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America...As a prize-fighter he gained nothing but his crooked nose, his celebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable." In his novel, a visit

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Sunday's homespun preaching had a wide appeal to his audiences, who were "entertained, reproached, exhorted, and astonished." Sunday claimed to be "an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion" and his uncomplicated sermons spoke of a personal God, salvation through Jesus Christ, and following

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With his wife administering the campaign organization, Sunday was free to compose and deliver colloquial sermons. Typically, Homer Rodeheaver would first warm up the crowd with congregational singing that alternated with numbers from gigantic choirs and music performed by the staff. When Sunday felt

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Eleven years into Sunday's evangelistic career, both he and his wife had been pushed to their emotional limits. Long separations had exacerbated his natural feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. Sunday depended on his wife's love and encouragement. For her part, Nell found it increasingly difficult

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Knickerbocker, 145–146; McLaughlin, 11. One newspaper reporting on the Garner revival "to be conducted by W.A. Sunday" noted that "this must be 'Billy' Sunday who used to play ball for Anson with the Chicago White Stockings. 'Billy' is as true a Christian gentleman as he was a rattling ball player,

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in 1871. In 1916, Anson recalled that his aunt "finally induced me to give Billy a chance in Chicago. She was what you call a dyed-in-the-wool fan and never missed a game the Marshalltown club ever played." In 1921, Sunday told veteran writer William Phelon Jr., "It was owing to the fact that Capt.

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Sunday's popularity waned after World War I, when many people in his revival audiences were attracted to radio broadcasts and moving pictures instead. The Sundays' health also declined even as they continued to drive themselves through rounds of revivals—smaller but also with fewer staff members to

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In the spring of 1891, Sunday turned down a baseball contract for $ 3,500 a year to accept a position with the Chicago YMCA at $ 83 per month. Sunday's job title at the YMCA was Assistant Secretary, yet the position involved a great deal of ministerial work. It proved to be good preparation for his

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Crowd noise, especially coughing and crying babies, was a significant impediment to Sunday's preaching because the wooden tabernacles were so acoustically live. During his preliminaries, Rodeheaver often instructed audiences about how to muffle their coughs. Nurseries were always provided, infants

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In 1907, journalist Lindsay Denison complained that Sunday preached "the old, old doctrine of damnation". Denison wrote, "In spite of his conviction that the truly religious man should take his religion joyfully, he gets his results by inspiring fear and gloom in the hearts of sinners. The fear of

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campaign of 1917, the Sundays had a paid staff of twenty-six. There were musicians, custodians, and advance men; but the Sundays also hired Bible teachers of both genders, who among other responsibilities, held daytime meetings at schools and shops and encouraged their audiences to attend the main

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Cap Anson, Sunday's captain-manager, said in his 1900 autobiography that Sunday struck out his first thirteen times at bat. However, contemporary newspaper accounts report eleven strikeouts at most, with two of his other at-bats reported simply as outs, probably not made by striking out. Sunday's

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had given him first-hand experience with the destructive potential of alcohol. Sunday's most famous sermon was "Get on the Water Wagon", which he preached on countless occasions with both histrionic emotion and a "mountain of economic and moral evidence." Sunday said, "I am the sworn, eternal and

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Actually, after resting in the afternoon, Sunday had helped his wife and brother-in-law repot some plants. Afterward, he again went upstairs to rest. Nell brought him his supper, and when she went downstairs to get her own, Sunday cried, "Nell! Oh, come quick! I've got an awful pain." Sunday had

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Dorsett, 81–84; Firstenberger, 45, 98–100. In 1911, Nell Sunday met Nora Lynn at the Erie, Pennsylvania campaign and persuaded her to become the Sundays' live-in housekeeper. Lynn was employed by the Sundays for twenty years; she effectively became a member of the Sunday family and died in their

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Knickerbocker, 80–89; Dorsett, 24–28. Sunday could never remember the date of this experience, although he made repeated reference to it. The oft-told conversion story poses a number of chronological difficulties. The best explication of the problems and their partial solutions is Knickerbocker,

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Dorsett, 86, 100–104; Firstenberger, 124–126. Firstenberger has documented more than seventy individuals who were members of the Sunday evangelistic team through the years of Billy Sunday's ministry. Virginia Asher and her husband William had known the Sundays since the 1890s and had previously

2395:) in which the fictional revival preacher Jimmy Mundy says that "the tango and the fox-trot were devices of the devil to drag people down into the Bottomless Pit. He said that there was more sin in ten minutes with a negro banjo orchestra than in all the ancient revels of Nineveh and Babylon." 1722:, William E. Barton (1861-1930), likewise attacked Sunday's pulpit manner, "We wish he would stop his profanity....damned stinking something-or-other, 'To hell with' something or somebody.... We wish he were a gentleman....He is a harsh, unjust, bad-tempered man...a very defective Christian." 1053:

Sunday never attended seminary and made no pretense of being a theologian or an intellectual, but he had a thorough knowledge of the Bible and was well read on religious and social issues of his day. His surviving Winona Lake library of six hundred books gives evidence of heavy use, including

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were typically paid with a freewill offering at the end of their meetings. Thereafter he insisted that towns build him temporary wooden tabernacles at their expense. The tabernacles were comparatively costly to build (although most of the lumber could be salvaged and resold at the end of the

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All three of Sunday's sons died violently: George from a "fall" from a hotel window; Billy Jr. in an automobile crash after a night of partying; and Paul in an airplane crash. Although Sunday's four children contracted nine marriages, Billy and Nell Sunday had only three grandchildren. The

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Dorsett, 148."Sabbath church attendance was not greatly affected by the rapid rise of the entertainment industry, but revivals conducted in big tents and tabernacles night after night for several weeks running were definitely undercut when the public found new competitors for their

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by Monday is opposed by "certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers", whom Monday calls "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests." Lewis's

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Although he socialized with his teammates and sometimes gambled, Sunday was never a heavy drinker. In his autobiography, he said, "I was never drunk but four times in my life. ... I used to go to the saloons with the baseball players, and while they would drink highballs and

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to several women to keep the scandals relatively quiet. In 1930, Nora Lynn, their housekeeper and nanny, who had become a virtual member of the family, died. Then the Sundays' daughter, the only child actually raised by Nell, died in 1932 of what seems to have been

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The Philadelphia team had an opportunity to win the National League pennant, and the owners hoped that adding Sunday to the roster would improve their chances. Although Sunday played well in his thirty-one games with Philadelphia, the team finished in third place.

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Tabernacle floors were covered with sawdust to dampen the noise of shuffling feet (as well as for its pleasant smell and its ability to hold down the dust of dirt floors), and walking to the front at the preacher's invitation became known as "hitting the

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Firstenberger, 26–29. Although preached in colloquialisms, Sunday's theology was fairly sophisticated and "orthodox in its basic ingredients". See Daniel LaRoy Anderson, "The Gospel According to Sunday", Th.D. dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary,

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On a Sunday afternoon in Chicago, during either the 1886 or 1887 baseball season, Sunday and several of his teammates were out on the town on their day off. At one street corner, they stopped to listen to a gospel preaching team from the

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and doing other farm chores. The Scotts provided Sunday a good home and the opportunity to attend Nevada High School. Although Sunday never received a high school diploma, by 1880 he was better educated than many of his contemporaries.

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The Sundays enjoyed dressing well and dressing their children well; the family sported expensive but tasteful coats, boots, and jewelry. Nell Sunday also bought land as an investment. In 1909, the Sundays bought an apple orchard in

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and frenetic delivery. Sunday held widely reported campaigns in America's largest cities, and he attracted the largest crowds of any evangelist before the advent of electronic sound systems. Sunday was a strong supporter of

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Sunday was welcomed into the circle of the social, economic, and political elite. He counted among his neighbors and acquaintances several prominent businessmen. Sunday dined with numerous politicians, including Presidents

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uncompromising enemy of the Liquor Traffic. I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command." Sunday played a significant role in arousing public interest in

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church members, regardless of denomination, gave assent to these doctrines. Sunday refused to hold meetings in cities where he was not welcomed by the vast majority of the Protestant churches and their clergy.

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holds the complete Sunday papers, and a near exhaustive collection of Sunday print materials including biographies, collected sermons, published campaign pieces, and over twenty five Sunday dissertations and

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and in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. When the tide of public opinion turned against Prohibition, he continued to support it. After its repeal in 1933, Sunday called for its reintroduction.

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In 1913, Sunday's mentor, J. Wilbur Chapman, wrote that he could not think of a time that Sunday had "had opportunity for conversation" that he had not asked, "Do you need any money?" Frankenburg, "Forward."

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during his 1916 Baltimore campaign. Also, cards filled out by "trail hitters" were faithfully returned to the church or denomination that the writers had indicated as their choice, including Catholic and

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In 1887, when Kelly was sold to another team, Sunday became Chicago's regular right fielder, but an injury limited his playing time to fifty games. During the following winter Sunday was sold to the

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Dorsett,95–96. A good description of the house and its furnishings is in Firstenberger, 80–92. In her will, Nell Sunday donated the house and its collection of artifacts as a museum.

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later evangelistic career. For three years Sunday visited the sick, prayed with the troubled, counseled the suicidal, and visited saloons to invite patrons to evangelistic meetings.

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Dorsett, 39–43, 48. Sunday's father-in-law was unhappy that Sunday had exchanged the promise of $ 3,000 for seven months of work for a six-day-a-week job that paid $ 1,000 per year.

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McLoughlin, 257–259; Firstenberger, 60–62; Dorsett, 113–114. Sunday said, "If you turn hell upside down, you will find 'Made in Germany' stamped on the bottom." Ray H. Abrams,

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It was official Klan policy to enter religious services late and (after first calling the newspaper) publicly present gifts before disappearing. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo,

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Dorsett, 129. In a 1929 letter to his wife, Sunday wrote that "all we have earned in the last 5 years has gone to Millie", Billy, Jr.'s ex-wife. BS to HTS, Box 4, Folder 32,

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and other evangelists. Asher organized permanent, post-campaign "Virginia Asher Councils" to continue work among those who, during that period, were called "businesswomen."

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McLoughlin, 232–234; Firstenberger, 72. During Prohibition, Sunday's revival theme song, "Brighten the Corner Where You Are", is said to have become a drinking song in the

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Large crowds and an efficient organization meant that Sunday was soon netting hefty offerings. The first questions about Sunday's income were apparently raised during the

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Compiled by the pastor of King's Valley Chapel in Kingfield, Maine, this website contains Sunday sermons, images, audio, a biographical timeline, and an online bookstore.

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Sunday's speed was his greatest asset, and he displayed it both on the basepaths and in the outfield. In 1885, the White Stockings arranged a race between Sunday and

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In March 1891, Sunday requested and was granted a release from his contract with the Philadelphia ball club. Over his career, Sunday was never much of a hitter: his

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The Sunday family home, known as "Mount Hood", is located in Winona Lake, Indiana. The home is maintained as a museum by the Winona History Center at Grace College.

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Dorsett, 112–113; Firstenberger, 69; McLaughlin, 180–184. Sunday preached that "whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell."(Compare

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Dorsett, 80–81; Firstenberger, 30. A short but striking first-person account of Sunday's 1915 Syracuse campaign by a Universalist clergyman is Frederick W. Betts,

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underscoring and reader's notes in his characteristic all-caps printing. Some of Sunday's books were even those of religious opponents. He was once charged with

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in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry. During the early 20th century, he became the nation's most famous evangelist with his colloquial

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the moral lessons of the Bible. Sunday's theology, although sometimes denigrated as simplistic, was situated within the mainstream Protestantism of his time.

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part (i.e. believe that Christ died in your place, and receive Him as your Saviour and Master) God has done HIS part and imparted to you His own nature."

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Nell Sunday transformed her husband's out-of-the-back-pocket organization into a "nationally renowned phenomenon." New personnel were hired, and by the

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before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams. His speed and agility provided him the opportunity to play baseball in the

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Dorsett, 93, 95; Knickerbocker, 156. The movie stars won, 1–0, and Sunday jokingly complained that his team could not get a break from the umpires,

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is a novel about an evangelist with more than a passing resemblance to Sunday. (Sunday in turn referred to Lewis as a member of "Satan's cohort.")

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The Ames (Iowa) Historical Society has compiled a biography of Sunday with pictures, including one of a Sunday plaque designating his birthplace.

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Sunday remained a prominent baseball fan throughout his life. He gave interviews and opinions about baseball to the popular press; he frequently

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in 1919. Though his audiences grew smaller during the 1920s, Sunday continued to preach and promote conservative Christianity until his death.

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against America, Hell against Heaven." Sunday raised large amounts of money for the troops, sold war bonds, and stumped for recruitment.

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Billy Sunday preaching on March 15, 1915 in a temporary tabernacle erected on what was to become the site of the Central Library of the

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stars, and members of Sunday's organization played a charity baseball game against a team of show business personalities that included

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minor league and amateur games in the cities where he held revivals; and he attended baseball games whenever he could, including a

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style, had two porches and a terraced garden but only nine rooms, 2,500 square feet (230 m) of living space, and no garage.

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forbidden, and Sunday sometimes appeared rude in his haste to rid the hall of noisy children who had slipped through the ushers.

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Tragedy marred Sunday's final years. His three sons engaged in many of the activities he preached against, and the Sundays paid

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Sunday later said, "That was my first experience at bookkeeping and I was never shy a dollar." Bruns, 39–40; Knickerbocker, 37.

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When Billy Sunday was ten years old, his impoverished mother sent him and an older brother to the Soldiers' Orphans Home in

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When Chapman unexpectedly returned to the pastorate in 1896, Sunday struck out on his own, beginning with meetings in tiny

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Sunday also took advantage of his reputation as a baseball player to generate advertising for his meetings. In 1907 in

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campaign of February 1925 featured both a special night for African Americans as well as an "unofficial Klan night." (

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Sunday was not a separationist as were many Protestants of his era. He went out of his way to avoid criticizing the

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who worked his way to Iowa, where he married Mary Jane Corey, daughter of "Squire" Martin Corey, a local farmer,

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Ingersollia: Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches and Conversations of the Late Col. Robert G. Ingersoll

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

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Anson's aunt, Emily Haviland attended Marshalltown games with her husband Marshall, who was the official team

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Unknown press (Nevada Community Historical Society, Inc., PO Box 213, Nevada, Iowa 50201-0213; 515-382-6684)

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Fans reportedly said, "Billy is fast enough, but he can't steal first base." Knickerbocker, 135–137, 2–3.

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before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century.

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They Gathered at the River: The Story of the Great Revivalists and Their Impact upon Religion in America

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four times in his first game, and there were seven more strikeouts and three more games before he got a

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has a large collection of Sunday images and content, including part of the Sunday papers on microfilm

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Sunday was a passionate supporter of America entering World War I. In 1918 he said, "I tell you it is

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Sunday, Nell. "Ma" Sunday Still Speaks. Winona Lake, Indiana: Winona Lake Christian Assembly, 1957.

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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

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By 1910, Sunday began to conduct meetings (usually longer than a month) in small cities like

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Dorsett, 77; Firstenberger, 32, 63. Sunday's library included a copy of Thomas W. Hanford,

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Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862–1935.

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the slang and colloquialisms that filled his sermons, but audiences clearly enjoyed them.

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tabernacle services in the evenings. The most significant of these new staff members were

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Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862–1935

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Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team

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Dorsett, 92–93. "Scores of newborn boys were named 'Billy Sunday' in his honor, and in

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By listening to Chapman preach night after night, Sunday received a valuable course in

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in the 1920s, refers to Chicago as "the town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down."

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a week after preaching his last sermon on the text "What must I do to be saved?"

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era. However, Sunday regularly received contributions from members of the Second

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Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career 1883–1890.

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Anderson, Daniel LeRoy. "The Gospel According to Sunday", Th.D. dissertation,

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A theological opponent, Universalist minister Frederick William Betts, wrote:

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on August 14, 1862. He died four months later of pneumonia at an army camp in

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named Sonntag, who had anglicized their name to "Sunday" when they settled in

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Voices from the Past: The Story of Nevada, Iowa, Its Community and Families.

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Denison, Lindsay (1907), "The Rev. Billy Sunday and His War On the Devil",

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Billy Sunday and the Masculinization of American Protestantism, 1896–1935.

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Dorsett, 93; Firstenberger, 39, 120–123; Lyle W. Dorsett, "Billy Sunday",

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Firstenberger, 29–30; McLoughlin, 274–275. According to Larson, Sunday's

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In 1886, Sunday was introduced at Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church to

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Church, a congregation close to both the ball park and his rented room.

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In Rare Form: A Pictorial History of Baseball Evangelist Billy Sunday.

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In rare form: a pictorial history of baseball evangelist Billy Sunday

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in 1903, his ministry was nondenominational and he was not a strict

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event. The win was noted by contemporary newspapers, including the

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Giffin, Frederick C. "Billy Sunday: The Evangelist as 'Patriot.'"

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from his earliest days as an evangelist, and his ministry at the

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Knickerbocker, 73–75, 97, 109, 120; Bruns, 51; Dorsett, 36–39.

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verifiable strikeouts-in-a-row are four. Knickerbocker, 31–32.

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

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Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ministers

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Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Captain Anson of Chicago.

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October 4, 1890, for the Philadelphia Phillies

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May 22, 1883, for the Chicago White Stockings

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Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry.

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Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry

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1905 was he well-off enough to hire his own advance man.

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Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism.

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Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism

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of Jesus Christ. At the turn of the 20th century, most

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Sunday's professional baseball career was launched by

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baseball field in Nevada is named Billy Sunday Field.

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attacked Sunday as a tool of big business, and poet

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Cornbread and Caviar: Reminiscences and Reflections

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American evangelist and baseball player (1862–1935)

2305:(Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1933), 79. 2273:(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021), 194. 1864:Firstenberger, 37; McLoughlin, 97; Dorsett, 91–92. 655:In 1893, Sunday became the full-time assistant to 2686:The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words. 2655:Nevada Community Historical Society Inc. (2003). 2545:Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America. 1437:value and the game's importance to the nation in 1411:Knickerbocker,131–133; Bruns, 51; Dorsett, 36–39. 619:and beer, I would take lemonade." Following his 443:By fourteen, Sunday was shifting for himself. In 4269: 3332:Conservative Congregational Christian Conference 2578:vol. 48, no. 4 (Autumn 1973), pp. 216–221. 2569:Billy Sunday: His Tabernacles and Sawdust Trails 646: 3207:General Association of Regular Baptist Churches 2436:(Wheaton, Illinois: Billy Graham Center, 1978). 2027:(1899) with underlined text and marginal notes. 1920:(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958), 254. 466: 3159:Evangelical Protestantism in the United States 2766:Career statistics and player information from 2121:McLoughlin, 223. John Reed, "Back of Sunday", 1244:Career statistics and player information from 1090:, condemning Sunday as a tool of big business. 3922: 3143: 2980: 2817: 2391:'s short story, "The Aunt and the Sluggard" ( 1307: 1301: 1073: 393:. His father, William Sunday, was the son of 2634:Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 2548:Grand Rapids, Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans, 1991. 1787:Firstenberger, 36–39. Fundamentalist leader 1724:Barton, Rev. William E. (February 4, 1915). 1513:Dorsett, 32–34; Frankenberg, 62; Martin, 34. 3939:Northwestern Wildcats head baseball coaches 3197:Conservative Baptist Association of America 2652:Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. 2643:Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. 1855:, September 7, 1914, 1, in McLoughlin, 128. 1666:, May 1915, pp 9-12. Accessed 6 March 2020. 532:for the 1888 season. He was their starting 3929: 3915: 3401:Christian Reformed Church in North America 3150: 3136: 2987: 2973: 2824: 2810: 2689:Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. 2564:Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. 2404:McLoughlin, 132–135; Firstenberger, 65–66. 2195:Firstenberger, 66–68; McLoughlin, 140–143. 1929:McLoughlin, 98–105, 199–203; Dorsett, 136. 1134:on some issues. For example, he denounced 159: 42: 3805:Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus 3795:Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 3314:Christian Churches and Churches of Christ 1710:, "fainted under that awful definition;" 4338:Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago 2599:Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2000. 2555:Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1914. 1830: 1828: 1314:. University of Iowa Press. p. 12. 1093: 1077: 982:doctrines. He affirmed and preached the 904: 889: 825: 822:Billy Sunday's tabernacle (Detroit 1916) 817: 781: 746: 673: 542: 451:, a former lieutenant governor, tending 3472:Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 2728:The Archives of the Billy Graham Center 2464:Dorsett, 141–143. Sunday was buried at 1798: 4368:Northwestern Wildcats baseball coaches 4270: 2680:Arlington, Virginia: Tile Books, 2006. 2602: 2434:The Papers of William and Helen Sunday 2227: 1723: 1308:Firstenberger, William Andrew (2005). 1172:Sunday had been an ardent champion of 1098:Tombstones of Billy and Helen Sunday, 1084:The Melting Pot: A Magazine of Protest 930:as friends. During and after the 1917 4373:People from Hood River County, Oregon 3910: 3131: 2968: 2805: 2490:from the original on November 3, 2012 2251:from the original on January 13, 2021 1916:, 21: 150–52; Bernard A. Weisberger, 1825: 1740:from the original on January 31, 2021 1688: 1433:published his opinions on baseball's 1328:from the original on January 31, 2021 909:Billy Sunday at the White House, 1922 894:1911 bungalow in Winona Lake, Indiana 669: 563:for two players and $ 1,000 in cash. 339:. He played for eight seasons in the 4403:Sportspeople from Marshalltown, Iowa 3820:National Association of Evangelicals 3477:Fundamentalist–modernist controversy 3271:Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) 3230:Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod 2590:MA thesis, Indiana University, 2008. 2282: 2003:Billy Sunday: The Man and the Method 1200: 1034:Although Sunday was ordained by the 742: 419:Iowa Twenty-Third Volunteer Infantry 316:National League pennant (1885, 1886) 2671:. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1936. 2553:Billy Sunday: His Life and Message. 2370:asked Sunday to participate in the 1881:from the original on April 26, 2012 1676:"Evangelist Billy Sunday preaching" 1062:speech given by the noted agnostic 934:campaign, the Sundays visited with 885: 682: 575:but he also committed a great many 475:, a Marshalltown native and future 23:. For the fictional character, see 13: 4393:Pittsburgh Alleghenys (NL) players 2364:Papers of William and Helen Sunday 2054:Dorsett, 155–157. Martin, 138–140. 1586:Dorsett, 64–65; Firstenberger, 46. 1486:Dorsett, 29; Knickerbocker, 61–62. 969: 14: 4414: 4363:Major League Baseball outfielders 4318:American people of German descent 3383:Christian and Missionary Alliance 3365:Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) 2696: 1695:Betts, Frederick William (1916). 705:In 1906, an October snowstorm in 417:. William Sunday enlisted in the 350:, Sunday spent some years at the 4333:Baseball players from Ames, Iowa 3790:Christianity Today International 3437:Association of Vineyard Churches 3225:Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod 2791:Billy Sunday's Greatest Campaign 2779:Billy Sunday's New York Campaign 2646:Mungons, Kevin and Douglas Yeo. 2472:, outside Chicago. According to 1726:"If Mr. Sunday Comes to Chicago" 1698:Billy Sunday, the Man and Method 1568:and that is saying a good deal." 718:Under the administration of Nell 590:game two months before he died. 4343:Chicago White Stockings players 4303:American Christian creationists 3825:National Religious Broadcasters 2641:Billy Sunday Was His Real Name. 2625:New York: Modern Library, 2004. 2527:Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. 2507: 2458: 2448: 2439: 2426: 2416: 2407: 2398: 2381: 2355: 2346: 2321: 2308: 2295: 2276: 2263: 2233: 2216: 2207: 2198: 2189: 2180: 2140:inserts a mention of Sunday in 2125:(May 1915), 10. Carl Sandburg, 2115: 2102: 2066: 2057: 2048: 2039: 2030: 2017: 2008: 1995: 1985: 1976: 1967: 1950: 1941: 1932: 1923: 1906: 1893: 1867: 1858: 1846: 1837: 1781: 1759:Martin, Robert Francis (2002). 1752: 1669: 1648: 1626: 1617: 1608: 1598: 1589: 1580: 1571: 1561: 1552: 1543: 1534: 1525: 1516: 1507: 1498: 1489: 1480: 1467: 1457: 1444: 1423: 1414: 1405: 1396: 1387: 1378: 1364: 1138:and supported urban reform and 4383:People from Story County, Iowa 3800:Evangelical Climate Initiative 3248:Presbyterian Church in America 2721:Morgan Library — Grace College 2668:Twenty Years with Billy Sunday 2567:Frankenberg, Theodore Thomas. 1645:was also an assistant in 1917. 1354: 1340: 1292: 1279: 1270: 1261: 1252: 1236: 1082:Cover of August 1914 issue of 830:New York City Tabernacle, 1917 1: 4388:Philadelphia Phillies players 4328:Baseball players from Chicago 4323:American temperance activists 4288:19th-century baseball players 3774:Transformational Christianity 2607:. New York, NY: Basic Books. 2241:"Klan Visitors At Auditorium" 2204:Quoted in McLoughlin, 144–45. 1267:McLoughlin, 1–3. Martin, 4–5. 1225: 647:Apprenticeship for evangelism 593: 459:In 1880, Sunday relocated to 384: 19:For the Rod Jones novel, see 4256:# denotes interim head coach 3719:Apostolic-Prophetic Movement 3547:Baptism with the Holy Spirit 3419:Seventh-day Adventist Church 2539:New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. 2247:. July 1, 1927. p. 15. 1947:Dorsett, 93–94, 134, 149–50. 1763:. Indiana University Press. 753:Free Library of Philadelphia 637:Helen Amelia "Nell" Thompson 517:, the fastest runner in the 467:Professional baseball player 434:Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home 352:Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home 309:Career highlights and awards 7: 3810:Fuller Theological Seminary 3286:Pentecostal Holiness Church 3182:Southern Baptist Convention 2774:Career statistics from MLB. 2515:Dallas Theological Seminary 1914:American National Biography 1258:McLoughlin, 1–2. Martin, 2. 962:, furnished in the popular 630: 389:Billy Sunday was born near 10: 4419: 3835:World Vision United States 3643:Contemporary worship music 3521:Los Angeles Crusade (1949) 3442:Calvary Chapel Association 2715:Birthplace of Billy Sunday 2603:Larson, Edward J. (1997). 2558:Firstenberger, William A. 1074:Social and political views 974:Sunday was a conservative 399:Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 335:and professional baseball 18: 4348:Christian fundamentalists 4298:20th-century evangelicals 4293:19th-century evangelicals 3946: 3848: 3782: 3754:New Apostolic Reformation 3711: 3685: 3625: 3582:Christianity and abortion 3534: 3454: 3427: 3409: 3391: 3373: 3340: 3322: 3299: 3281:Pentecostal Church of God 3256: 3238: 3215: 3172: 3165: 3109: 3010: 2946: 2847: 1195:the teaching of evolution 992:substitutionary atonement 322: 313: 308: 264: 259: 249: 239: 229: 219: 214: 209: 204: 199: 194: 176: 167: 158: 147: 139: 129: 119: 105: 82: 53: 41: 34: 4378:People from Nevada, Iowa 3876:Charles Grandison Finney 3759:Neo-charismatic movement 3729:Christian fundamentalism 3429:Nondenominational Family 3324:Congregationalist Family 2709:Billy Sunday Home Museum 2331:. A line in the popular 2316:Christianity and alcohol 2213:Dorsett, 96–97, 152–154. 2132:August 31, 2006, at the 2090:Elmer Gantry study guide 1230: 880:Columbia, South Carolina 447:, he worked for Colonel 2997:Chicago White Stockings 2834:Chicago White Stockings 2413:Knickerbocker, 156–157. 1901:Fulton County, Illinois 1875:"BGEA New York Crusade" 1402:Knickerbocker, 125–131. 1102:, Forest Park, Illinois 928:John D. Rockefeller Jr. 485:Chicago White Stockings 401:. William Sunday was a 346:Born into poverty near 268:Chicago White Stockings 3856:Aimee Semple McPherson 3769:Seven Mountain Mandate 3509:Fourth Great Awakening 3492:Second Great Awakening 3350:Church of the Nazarene 2638:McLoughlin, William G. 2593:Knickerbocker, Wendy. 2368:William Jennings Bryan 2303:Preachers Present Arms 1639:Pulitzer Prize-winning 1558:Dorsett, 58–59, 62–63. 1106:Sunday was a lifelong 1103: 1091: 910: 895: 831: 823: 813:Bellingham, Washington 787: 780: 766: 679: 601:Pacific Garden Mission 548: 4353:Christian revivalists 4308:American evangelicals 3815:Moody Bible Institute 3764:Red-Letter Christians 3504:Third Great Awakening 3487:First Great Awakening 3360:Free Methodist Church 3301:Restorationist Family 3291:Apostolic Pentecostal 3266:Assemblies of God USA 2738:, and campaign music 2674:Rosenberg, Howard W. 2283:Stephens, Randall J. 2245:The Bangor Daily News 2123:Metropolitan Magazine 1806:The American Magazine 1656:Metropolitan Magazine 1429:For example, in 1917 1097: 1081: 1020:Roman Catholic Church 996:resurrection of Jesus 988:virgin birth of Jesus 908: 893: 829: 821: 785: 775: 762:Metropolitan Magazine 750: 737:Virginia Healey Asher 677: 561:Philadelphia Phillies 546: 530:Pittsburgh Alleghenys 506:when Kelly served as 329:William Ashley Sunday 296:Philadelphia Phillies 282:Pittsburgh Alleghenys 134:Helen Thompson Sunday 114:Forest Park, Illinois 58:William Ashley Sunday 4313:American evangelists 4048:Charles M. Hollister 3724:Bapticostal movement 3638:Contemporary worship 3617:Second work of grace 3597:Evangelical theology 3462:Azusa Street Revival 3002:1886 National League 2839:1885 National League 2751:Billy Sunday's grave 2703:Billy Sunday On-line 2486:. November 7, 1935. 2466:Forest Home Cemetery 1189:Sunday also opposed 1100:Forest Home Cemetery 952:Winona Lake, Indiana 519:American Association 379:Eighteenth Amendment 125:Christian evangelist 110:Forest Home Cemetery 21:Billy Sunday (novel) 4358:Indiana Republicans 3749:Post-evangelicalism 3567:Biblical patriarchy 3557:Biblical literalism 3240:Presbyterian Family 3192:Missionary Baptists 3187:Independent Baptist 2795:The Literary Digest 2783:The Literary Digest 2663:Rodeheaver, Homer A 2352:McLoughlin, 146–48. 2289:voices.uchicago.edu 1853:Rocky Mountain News 1808:, September, 1907, 1549:Dorsett, 53–54, 57. 1450:Sunday obituary in 1036:Presbyterian Church 922:, and counted both 755:. Illustration by 500:Mike "King" Kelly's 483:, president of the 432:, and later to the 423:Patterson, Missouri 205:Last MLB appearance 48:Billy Sunday (1921) 4024:Horace Butterworth 3572:Biblical womanhood 3562:Biblical inerrancy 3497:Cane Ridge Revival 3309:Churches of Christ 3258:Pentecostal Family 2768:Baseball Reference 2734:, Sunday ephemera 2628:Martin, Robert F. 2621:Larson, Edward J. 2551:Ellis, William T. 2483:The New York Times 2474:The New York Times 2174:2013-06-04 at the 2149:2021-01-31 at the 2095:2007-10-15 at the 1819:2012-11-11 at the 1720:Oak Park, Illinois 1706:, "rawest thing;" 1681:2020-08-07 at the 1662:2021-01-31 at the 1276:Dorsett, 8–10, 13. 1246:Baseball Reference 1216:multiple sclerosis 1104: 1092: 1022:and even met with 990:, the doctrine of 984:biblical inerrancy 956:American Craftsman 948:Hood River, Oregon 916:Theodore Roosevelt 911: 896: 832: 824: 788: 767: 680: 670:Popular evangelist 549: 461:Marshalltown, Iowa 72:Story County, Iowa 4263: 4262: 4184:Freddie Lindstrom 3904: 3903: 3592:Decision theology 3587:Christian Zionism 3552:Believers' Church 3450: 3449: 3375:Keswickian Family 3276:Foursquare Church 3202:Free Will Baptist 3125: 3124: 2962: 2961: 2584:Hayat, A. Cyrus. 2542:Dorsett, Lyle W. 2445:Dorsett, 129–130. 2169:"Ramble On Rose." 2127:"To Billy Sunday" 1716:Congregationalist 1495:Firstenberger, 7. 1475:The Sawdust Trail 1431:Baseball Magazine 1201:Decline and death 1116:Henry M. Tichenor 1088:Henry M. Tichenor 940:Douglas Fairbanks 743:Campaign platform 657:J. Wilbur Chapman 588:1935 World Series 395:German immigrants 358:for eight years. 326: 325: 68:November 19, 1862 4410: 4251: 4243: 4235: 4227: 4219: 4211: 4203: 4195: 4187: 4179: 4171: 4163: 4155: 4147: 4139: 4131: 4123: 4115: 4107: 4099: 4091: 4083: 4075: 4067: 4059: 4056:A. B. Cunningham 4051: 4043: 4035: 4027: 4019: 4011: 4003: 3995: 3987: 3979: 3971: 3963: 3955: 3940: 3931: 3924: 3917: 3908: 3907: 3896:Jonathan Edwards 3840:Youth for Christ 3734:Evangelical left 3607:Kingdom theology 3411:Adventist Family 3170: 3169: 3152: 3145: 3138: 3129: 3128: 3118: 3102: 3095: 3088: 3081: 3074: 3067: 3060: 3053: 3046: 3039: 3032: 3025: 3018: 3003: 2998: 2989: 2982: 2975: 2966: 2965: 2955: 2939: 2932: 2925: 2918: 2911: 2904: 2897: 2890: 2883: 2876: 2869: 2862: 2855: 2840: 2835: 2826: 2819: 2812: 2803: 2802: 2746:Selected Sermons 2618: 2502: 2499: 2497: 2495: 2462: 2456: 2452: 2446: 2443: 2437: 2430: 2424: 2420: 2414: 2411: 2405: 2402: 2396: 2385: 2379: 2359: 2353: 2350: 2344: 2325: 2319: 2312: 2306: 2299: 2293: 2292: 2280: 2274: 2267: 2261: 2260: 2258: 2256: 2237: 2231: 2220: 2214: 2211: 2205: 2202: 2196: 2193: 2187: 2184: 2178: 2119: 2113: 2106: 2100: 2070: 2064: 2063:Martin, 126–127. 2061: 2055: 2052: 2046: 2043: 2037: 2034: 2028: 2021: 2015: 2014:Weisberger, 253. 2012: 2006: 1999: 1993: 1989: 1983: 1980: 1974: 1971: 1965: 1954: 1948: 1945: 1939: 1936: 1930: 1927: 1921: 1910: 1904: 1897: 1891: 1890: 1888: 1886: 1871: 1865: 1862: 1856: 1850: 1844: 1843:McLoughlin, 127. 1841: 1835: 1834:McLoughlin, 128. 1832: 1823: 1802: 1796: 1785: 1779: 1774: 1756: 1750: 1749: 1747: 1745: 1702: 1692: 1686: 1673: 1667: 1652: 1646: 1630: 1624: 1621: 1615: 1612: 1606: 1602: 1596: 1593: 1587: 1584: 1578: 1575: 1569: 1565: 1559: 1556: 1550: 1547: 1541: 1538: 1532: 1529: 1523: 1520: 1514: 1511: 1505: 1502: 1496: 1493: 1487: 1484: 1478: 1471: 1465: 1461: 1455: 1448: 1442: 1427: 1421: 1418: 1412: 1409: 1403: 1400: 1394: 1391: 1385: 1382: 1376: 1368: 1362: 1358: 1352: 1344: 1338: 1337: 1335: 1333: 1305: 1299: 1296: 1290: 1283: 1277: 1274: 1268: 1265: 1259: 1256: 1250: 1240: 1140:women's suffrage 1064:Robert Ingersoll 1024:Cardinal Gibbons 886:Wages of success 733:Homer Rodeheaver 707:Salida, Colorado 683:Kerosene circuit 163: 89: 86:November 6, 1935 67: 65: 46: 32: 31: 4418: 4417: 4413: 4412: 4411: 4409: 4408: 4407: 4268: 4267: 4264: 4259: 4246: 4238: 4230: 4222: 4214: 4206: 4198: 4192:George McKinnon 4190: 4182: 4174: 4166: 4158: 4150: 4142: 4134: 4126: 4118: 4110: 4102: 4094: 4086: 4078: 4072:L. 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