Baseball player evangelist

From 1883 - 1890 There was a baseball player that signed with the Chicago White Stockings that most people might not even know as a ball player but as an evangelist. "I was a good baserunner... but there were better hitters. - Billy Sunday, asked why he didn't put himself on an All-Time team he composed late in life.

"... the greatest high-pressure and mass-conversion Christian evangel that America, or the world, has known." - from his obituary in the New York Times

Billy Sunday, famous as an evangelist, played eight years in the major leagues. He was twice third in the league in stolen bases. Read more about this baseball player turned evangelist in

Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American

Sawdust Trail Preacher: Billy Sunday (Faith's Adventurers)

Sunday in Manhattan - The story of Billy Sunday