Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935

Abstract

"Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday's flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin's prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen analysis."--Randall Balmer, author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in AmericaWilliam Ashley "Billy" Sunday was the most popular and influential evangelist of his time. Between 1896. Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE A Son of the Middle West; TWO The Diamond and the Cross; THREE Entrepreneurial Evangelism; FOUR Playing the Game for God; FIVE Man Enough to Be a Christian; SIX Progressive Orthodoxy; SEVEN Hero of the Heartland; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.