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 ...

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 ...

Having delivered himself of opinions upon the Bible (“a bloody book”), upon the many cases of substitution to be found in the streets of St. Louis (“I can show you a thousand”), and upon an enormous ...

Billy Sunday was under his Hood River farmhouse, digging a hole for a storage cellar, when he learned he wasn’t going to become the vice president of the United States. The former professional ...

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