The fame of American evangelist William Ashley Sunday (1862-1935) rests on his reputation as an immensely popular revivalist preacher. His fiery platform style differed dramatically from the dignified manner of his predecessors. Billy Sunday was born...

A former professional baseball player with an entertainer's flair and a mastery of idiomatic language, Billy Sunday set the pace for modern evangelism. His tabernacle crusades of the early 1900s combined showmanship with Fundamentalism and...

William Ashley Sunday (November 19 1862 – November 6 1935) was a American athlete and religious figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist...

Rod Jones. Holt, 1996 255 pp. $23.00. This novel--almost a prose poem--succeeds in capturing our yearning for transcendence (exemplified by the historian Frederick Jackson Turner and the revivalist Billy Sunday). It is a meditation on the "American" spirit; it creates the very...

Between 1909, when he first made the pages of the New York Times, and 1935, when that newspaper covered his death and memorial service, Billy Sunday preached sin and salvation to large crowds all over America. Lyle W. Dorsett, remembered for books on...

Today is Sunday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2006. There are 21 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to...