Religion, Baseball (19-Nov-1862 — 6-Nov-1935)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Elijah P. Brown. The Real Billy Sunday: The Life and Work of Rev. William Ashley Sunday, D.D., the Baseball Evangelist. New York City: Fleming H. Revell Co.. 1914. 285pp.

Roger Bruns. Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism. New York City: W. W. Norton. 1992. 351pp.

Lyle W. Dorsett. Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America. Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. 1991. 212pp.

Theodore Thomas Frankenberg. Spectacular Career of Rev. Billy Sunday, Famous Baseball Evangelist. Columbus, OH: McClelland & Co.. 1913. 231pp.

Wendy Knickerbocker. Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career, 1883-1890. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 2000. 192pp.

William G. McLoughlin. Billy Sunday Was His Real Name. University of Chicago Press. 1955. 324pp.

Rachael Phillips. Billy Sunday: Evangelist on the Sawdust Trail. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Publishing. 2001. 203pp.

Homer A. Rodeheaver. Twenty Years with Billy Sunday. Nashville, TN: Cokesbury Press. 1936. 149pp.

Billy Sunday. Life and Labors of Rev. Wm. A. (Billy) Sunday, the Great Modern Evangelist. Decatur, IL: Herman Poole & Co.. 1908. 366pp.

Billy Sunday. Burning Truths from Billy's Bat: A Graphic Description of the Remarkable Conversion of Rev. "Billy" Sunday (the World's Famous Evangelist) Embodying Anecdotes, Terse Sayings, Etc.. Philadelphia, PA: Diamond Pub. Co.. 1914. 103pp.

Billy Sunday; William Thomas Ellis. "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message. Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Co.. 1914. 432pp.

Lee Thomas. The Billy Sunday Story: The Life and Times of William Ashley Sunday. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House. 1961. 256pp.

Melton Wright. Giant for God: A Biography of the Life of William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday. Boyce, VA: Carr Pub. Co.. 1951. 168pp.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.billysunday.org/

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.98)

6. Webster's American Biographies (p.1010)

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