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	WowEssays.com - Billy Sunday
		Sunday’s critics said that at best he was a well-meaning buffoon whose sermons vulgarized and trivialized the Christian message and at worst he was a disgrace to the name of Christ (Dorsett 2).
		Nevertheless, Billy Sunday was a sincere man whose life was fundamentally changed by his response to an evangelist’s call to repent of his sins, to believe that Jesus Christ died in his place for those sins, and to follow Christ in thanksgiving by worshiping and obeying him.
		Sunday and her parents were so impoverished that they could not feed and clothe all the children.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/aa4/dli44.shtml (2325 words)

	Billy Sunday
		Billy did his best and preached those 7 and the crowds were so receptive, he preached the same 7 sermons over again the next week and gave his testimony and 268 people were saved in 10 days.
		Billy Sunday went on to hold some 300 crusades in 39 years, and during his peak, was considered one of the greatest evangelists in the world at that time.
		Billy Sunday was not the first to organize his campaigns into great spiritual crusades, but nobody ever did it on a greater and grander scale before, and probably no one has ever done it any better.
	www.gospelcenterchurch.org /billysunday.html (3639 words)

	Billy Sunday Visits Exira
		The Rev. Sunday engaged with the boys in an exhilarating game of baseball the other day on the school grounds and then went and purchased the very latest regulation ball to be had in town and quietly and unostentatiously made the lads a present of it.
		Sunday evening closed and meetings that have been in progress in the tabernacle in the park for the past three weeks and Reverend W. Sunday departed for his home in Chicago on the Monday noon train.
		Sunday will ever be held dear to the people of Exira and many warm friends here will fondly cherish the memory of him who worked hard for their joy and comfort, and for the eternal peace and happiness of their homes.
	www.metc.net /~walkman/exira/bsunday.html (1821 words)

	Billy Sunday
		Billy Sunday's style of preaching won him an enormous amount of newspaper exposure, as did the enthusiasm with which his campaigns were received.
		Sunday was away for an evangelistic campaign, the children were usually taken care of by the family housekeeper, Nora Lynn.
		Sunday was affected by a parallel decrease in his national exposure and influence, although until his death he never lacked invitations to speak and hold campaigns.
	www.holytrinitynewrochelle.org /yourti19036.html (1695 words)

	How Billy Sunday battled demon rum in Detroit
		When Billy Sunday brought his battle against the devil to Detroit in 1916, it was big news -- bigger than the reports from the World War raging in Europe and bigger than visits by mere presidents.
		Sunday was rabid in his opposition to demon rum.
		Sunday attacked drinkers in his audience as "dirty, low-down, whiskey-soaked, beer-guzzling, bull-necked, foul-mouthed, hypocrites" He spiked his sermons with stories of drunks shooting family and friends, or axing their wives.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=200&category=people (1296 words)

	Billy Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billy was "discovered" by the leader of the Chicago White Sox in 1883 and played for that team for five years, and later for Philadelphia.
		Billy was a drunk, rescued from the street corners by workers of the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, and led to the Lord by the founder's wife.
		Sunday's own testimony stated, "I staked my soul and everything I had, on the God of the Bible, and the Christ of that Bible, and I won." Billy went home to be with his Lord in 1935.
	www.mhmin.org /fc/fc-0891BillyS.htm (654 words)

	Billy Sunday Dies in Chicago
		Sunday, known for his speed on the diamond, was conceded one of the fastest men in baseball and once held a record for rounding the bases in the shortest time.
		Sunday recalled that at her husbands last evangelical effort at Mishawaka, Ind., Oct. 27, he had brought "30 or 40" converts to the alter in one of his old time revivals.
		(Billy) Sunday, world-famous evangelist and resident of Winona Lake for the past 30 years, in a striking pose while in the prime of his career on the "saw dust trail." All of Kosciusko county mourn his death.
	yesteryear.clunette.com /sunday.html (1353 words)

	Billy Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billy and his wife "Ma Sunday" settled in Winona Lake, Indiana, home of the Winona Lake Bible Conference and famed Chautauqua meetings.
		Billy Sunday did his part by imparting the message of sin and salvation to the summer visitors.
		Billy Sunday died on November 6, 1935 of a heart attack and memorial services were held at the Moody Memorial Church of Chicago.
	www.pilkingtonandsons.com /billysunday.htm (282 words)

	Billy Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was noted first as a professional baseball player, and then more famous evangelist.
		Mr sunday was born in ((kutztown)) he is funny and talks way too loud in study halls he likes to relax in steaming piles of cow poo he goes to kutztown high school and is the star wide reciver on the football team
		This page was last modified 15:19, 5 April 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Sunday (103 words)

	Forest Home Cemetery: Rev. Billy Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billy Sunday was born into poverty, grandson of German immigrants.
		Sunday, an extraordinarily fast runner, joined the White Stockings and played professional baseball for eight years.
		As times changed, Sunday was increasingly seen as a relic of the past, and his popularity waned.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/foresthome/se-sunday.html (143 words)

	Billy Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was born in Iowa but his father was killed in the Civil war before Billy was a year old.
		In 1886 Billy converted to Christ as a result of street preaching, and he gave up his baseball career in 1891.
		Billy spent several years working at the YMCA and he became an ordained minister in 1903.
	www.christianheroes.com /ev/ev004.asp (155 words)

	Hitting the Sawdust Trail with BIlly Sunday - illustrated
		Billy Sunday is still one of the twentieth century's best known evangelists.
		Sunday himself was converted at the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago (1886) while playing professional baseball for the Chicago White Stockings.
		In his heyday, Sunday's campaigns were held in temporary wooden structures or tabernacles, built for the event.
	www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/sunday/sunday01.html (550 words)

	BILLY SUNDAY COLLECTION, 1883-CA. 1935
		Sunday led revivals all over the country, bringing a rural camp-meeting style to the cities, speaking to between one and five thousand people per month.
		Billy used an energetic preaching style, performing acrobatic feats and throwing imaginary baseballs to convince his audience to “pitch over the plate for Christ.” Sunday denounced the evils of the day: drinking, gambling, swearing, and Sabbath-breaking.
		The collection is comprised of nine postcards featuring Billy Sunday during his years of ministry, three cabinet cards depicting both his baseball-playing years and his career as an evangelist, and one poster depicting the Billy Sunday Tabernacle.
	www.indianahistory.org /Library/manuscripts/collection_guides/P0417.html (1010 words)

	Caxtonian: August 2002
		It was Rev. Clarke who knelt beside Billy Sunday in Des Moines in 1933, when Sunday had his first heart attack as he preached “on the sawdust trail.” I heard the story a dozen times in 1953 and 1954, as Rev. Clarke, a vigorous and entertaining speaker himself, demonstrated how he knelt, cradled Mr.
		Sunday’s head on his lap, and spoke soothingly to him before the emergency crew arrived to take him to the hospital.
		Sunday,’ she wrote at his death, ‘was a typical, great-hearted, sentimental American husband.’ But, she went on, ‘He really had no social life.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/2002/Aug/musings.htm (847 words)

	Famous Ames residents - Billy Sunday
		Billy Sunday, born in 1862 and raised in Ames and Nevada, was a professional baseball player from 1883 to 1890 for Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.
		Billy Sunday was born in a log cabin south of Ames.
		Sunday wears no glasses, delivered his farewell on Monday night to a large audience in spite of a heavy rain storm.
	www.ameshistoricalsociety.org /residents_sunday.htm (338 words)

	Billy Sunday
		Billy fingered the dollar in the pocket of his green six-dollar suit and clutched the handle of his valise tightly.
		“Billy, I want to you race Fred Pfeffer, our second baseman.” Cap Anson, the hard-hitting first baseman and outfielder, was not only the team leader; he also functioned as manager for the White Stockings.
		Billy shot in front of the astonished Pfeffer almost immediately, finishing the race well ahead of him.
	home.earthlink.net /~phillips53/rachaelphillips/id7.html (403 words)

	Billy Sunday Chased Fly Balls and Sinners - Part 3
		Billy Sunday was one of the most popular stars on the world champion Chicago White Stockings ball club of the 1880s.
		Sunday's comings and goings coincided with a great outpouring of baseball cards during the 1888 season, and Sunday appears on several issues in both Chicago or Pittsburgh uniforms.
		The posed shots depict Sunday bent over or stooped, pointing in exaggerated fashion or clasping his hands to his mouth and shouting his biblical message to the rafters.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article1525.chtml (839 words)

	Billy Sunday, American evangelist - Christian Biography Resources
		Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was an American evangelist born in Iowa.
		Papers of William Ashley "Billy" Sunday and Helen Amelia (Thompson) Sunday.
		After Billy's death in 1935, she traveled extensively throughout the country helping to raise money for rescue missions and similar Christian ministries, addressing youth rallies, and was active in the work of such Christian ministries as Bob Jones University, Youth for Christ, and the Voice of the Andes radio station.
	www.wholesomewords.org /biography/biorpsunday.html (244 words)

	Billy was on his way to glory - - The Times Republican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billy was living the stereotypical life of a baseball player by drinking, carousing, and associating with women of questionable reputations.
		Most of his early revivals were in the Midwest, but when his wife, Nell "Ma" Sunday decided to go on the road with him, she took complete charge of his career and made him famous all over the world.
		In contrast to Billy, Nell was well educated with a degree in business administration and she made the best of it managing Billy's career.
	www.timesrepublican.com /columns/story/1028202005_colcol.asp (793 words)

	November 19: Billy Sunday
		Billy's talent for the dramatic drew thousands to see his antics and hear his rapid-fire delivery and pantomimes of fighting the devil.
		Sunday would ask, "How many of you men and women will jump to your feet and come down and say, "Bill, here's my hand for God, for home, for my native land, to live and conquer for Christ?" Shaking Billy's hand was his way of signifying getting right with God.
		Billy's New York campaign drew a million-and-a-half people and chalked up l00,000 "conversions." However, many of the converts were uncertain what their step forward meant and few actually joined a church.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/11/daily-11-19-2003.shtml (686 words)

	Billy Sunday Home & Visitors Center - Winona Lake, Indiana
		Billy Sunday, born in Ames, Iowa in 1862, grew up in an orphanage.
		Sunday left a $400 per month career for the $83.33 a month he could earn working for the Chicago's YMCA religious instruction staff.
		During Billy Sunday's lifetime, he identified drinking as a sin and a social evil that needed to be outlawed.
	members.tripod.com /~kclocke/sunday.html (450 words)

	Revival Library \| Billy Sunday by William T. Ellis \| Title
		Born in 1862, Sunday was a professional baseball player and part-time fireman, when he was converted through the ministry of the Garden Mission in Chicago in 1886.
		Sunday’s sensational and flamboyant preaching style appealed to the masses who responded to his sometimes outrageous sermons on moral issues, especially the evils of alcohol.
		Sunday can be described as a revivalist – a powerful and successful evangelist who used all the ‘means’ he could to see people converted – who occasionally saw signs of true revival.
	www.revival-library.org /catalogues/twentieth/ellisw/title.htm (236 words)

	Memories of 'Ma' and Billy Sunday by Mrs. H. W. Frink
		Sunday laughted, slapped us on the back, saying 'That's just to fool you reporters.' She said a reporter at Pittsburgh started it several years ago because he couldn't find anything else to write about, she guessed.
		Sunday doesn't want people to think her husband was a drunkard and a tough.
		This was the only time I ever actually met Ma Sunday, but I have read evey scrap of news I could find about her and was delighted to discover that as recently as six years ago she was as vigorous and out-spoken as ever.
	yesteryear.clunette.com /masunday.html (1137 words)

	NPR : Billy Sunday, Man of God
		NPR.org, November 24, 2002 · In the early 1900s, Billy Sunday sold what was then a unique brand of muscular, testosterone-laden Christianity.
		Billy Sunday was one of the first to do this.
		Sunday, says Martin, was "one of the most acrobatic evangelists of the age." One newspaper columnist at the time estimated that Sunday traveled about a mile during each sermon.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=854571 (449 words)

	Billy Sunday: The Kerosene Circuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billy called this time being on the "Kerosene Circuit" because most of these towns had no electricity.
		Sunday was listened to every night by an audience that packed the opera house to its utmost capacity at every service.
		His hand was shaken by everybody who could get to him, and as the train started, hands and handkerchiefs were waved and gospel songs sung as long as the train could be seen.
	www.angelfire.com /mn3/billysunday/kerosenecircuit.html (1310 words)

	Billy Sunday
		Sunday, Billy (William Ashley Sunday), 1863–1935, American evangelist, b.
		Known as “the baseball evangelist,”; Sunday drew large crowds to his revivals with his flamboyant style.
		Billie Sunday FARNUM - FARNUM, Billie Sunday (1916—1979) FARNUM, Billie Sunday, a Representative from Michigan; born...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0847225.html (217 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Don Freeman -- Billy Sunday left the outfield to try pitching for a higher power
		Now about Billy Sunday: His full handle was William Ashley Sunday, and he was a ballplayer out of Ames, Iowa, born in 1862.
		Billy's mother was compelled to send her children to a home for children of impoverished soldiers.
		One night, Billy sat with several teammates on the curb of the intersection of State and Madison streets in downtown Chicago.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/freeman/20050326-9999-1c26freeman.html (517 words)

	SARAH WHITE Billy Sunday's Ghost Resort
		In its heyday it was the home of evangelist Billy Sunday, famous for his tabernacles and sawdust trails.
		In addition to the Billy Sunday campus there was a seminary, a religious publishing house, and lots of youth camps, including one of the original Boys' Towns.
		Billy Sunday is a historical footnote today, but his energy lasted for half a century, and I absorbed it.
	www.whitesarah.com /ghost_resort.html (1222 words)

	Sunday, Billy on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SPEEDWAY, IN -- Billy Boat blows an engine in turn one of the 87th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana on Sunday, May 25, 2003.
		Billy Ray Cyrus will cut off his mullet on TV Sunday night.
		Billy Crystal is photographed at the opening monologue the 76th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, February 29, 2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/sunday-b1.asp (1201 words)

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