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Billy Sunday

William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) 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 evangelist at the start of the 20th century.

Images for kids

  • Billy Sunday, Center Fielder (1887)

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

  • Billy Sunday preaches

    Sunday preaches

  • Preaching

    Sunday preaching by George Bellows, Metropolitan Magazine, May 1915

  • Billy Sunday's tabernacle (Detroit 1916)

    Billy Sunday's tabernacle (Detroit 1916)

  • SundayNYCTabernacle

    New York City Tabernacle, 1917

  • Billy Sunday at the White House

    Billy Sunday at the White House, 1922

  • Melting Pot August 1914

    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.

  • Billy-Nell-Sunday-Forest-Home-Cemetery-Il

    Tombstones of Billy and Helen Sunday, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL


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