Billy Sunday Preaches

American evangelical preacher Billy Sunday (born William Ashley Sunday) (1862 - 1935) delivers a sermon to some 6000 attendees at a revival meeting, Bloomington, Illinois, late 1907 or early 1908. Sunday was a former baseball player who, after his conversion to evangelical Christianity became one of the most highly regarded preachers in the United States throughout the first part of the twentieth century. (Photo by C.U. Williams/Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images)