biography
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Sunday, Billy
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popular name of William Ashley Sunday
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1935)
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| biography:
| Protestant evangelist, born in Ames, Iowa, USA. He grew up in poverty but managed to complete high school before joining the Chicago White Sox baseball team in 1883. He underwent a religious conversion (1887) and, after retiring as a player (1891), went to work for the YMCA in Chicago. His fabulously successful career as an evangelist began in 1896. A flamboyant fundamentalist, his denunciations of science, liquor, and political liberalism attracted an enormous following, especially in rural areas. Although his influence began to decline after c.1920, he continued preaching to the end of his life. |
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