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Billy Sunday
Title: Billy Sunday
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2404 | Pages: 10.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday
For almost a quarter century Billy Sunday was a household name in the United States. Between 1902 when he first made the pages of the New York Times and 1935 when the paper covered his death and memorial service in detail, people who knew anything about current events had heard of the former major league baseball player who was preaching sin and salvation to large crowds all over America. Not everyone who knew of the …showed first 75 words of 2404 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2404 total…life that night to a cause that he saw was more important than any baseball game ever played.
Despite becoming largely famous after being traded to Philadelphia, it would be the results of that decision at the Pacific Garden Mission that the world would remember Billy Sunday for. Some applauded Sunday and his methods; others did not. But there is no question that Sunday’s sensational career was a phenomenon Americans would not soon forget.
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