With a nickname like “Black Billy Sunday,” the Rev. Dr. J. Gordon McPherson was no ordinary preacher. His forceful, ...
Today’s Free Press Flashback recounts an extended visit to Detroit by the entertaining Billy Sunday, America’s best-known evangelist of the World War I era. Beginning in the 1890s, Billy Sunday, a ...
Billy Sunday mixed baseball and the Bible in a way that attracted crowds every time he spoke. Nearly 1,000 people came to meet his train when the plain-speaking evangelist arrived in Cape Gir-ardeau ...
The California Eagle, an African-American newspaper in Los Angeles, dubbed the Rev. Dr. J. Gordon McPherson “the Fighting Parson” in 1916. California Eagle / Newspapers.com One Sunday morning in June ...
(RNS) — Pastors holding religious services in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic recall evangelist Billy Sunday’s face-to-face encounter with 1918’s flu in Providence, Rhode Island. (RNS) — As the ...
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 ...