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The Baseball Player's Conversion. One Sunday afternoon Billy was strolling about in the south end of the business district of Chicago, with half a dozen baseball friends. The New York Giants were in the city at the time, and several of them were in the party.
He claimed that 1,000,000 “hit the sawdust trail” to come forward and profess their conversion to Christ as a result of his preaching. Considered by some critics a sensationalist, he nevertheless gained the enthusiastic support of evangelical churches and influential laymen.
Converting to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry. During the early 20th century, he became the nation's most famous evangelist with his colloquial sermons and frenetic delivery.
Ever since his conversion to Christianity at the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago in 1886, he had felt an increasingly strong call to preach. The YMCA finally convinced him to leave baseball to...
Sunday was a successful evangelist—both in terms of souls converted and money made. Some people criticized Sunday’s luxurious lifestyle.
Conversion. On a Sunday afternoon during either the 1886 or 1887 baseball season, Sunday and his teammates had indulged in some alcoholic beverages were wandering the streets of Chicago on their day off. At one corner, they stopped to listen to a street preaching team from the Pacific Garden Mission.
In 1886, Sunday was converted through the street preaching of Harry Monroe of the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. After attending several services there, being moved by the singing of hymns he had heard as a child, Sunday professed conversion to Christ.
Using letters, published and unpublished reminiscences, and other primary source documents, this article reconstructs the emotional expe- rience of Sunday's converts and offers insights into the meaning of conversion and followership in Sunday's and other similar social movements.
Billy Sunday (1862–1935) was a farm-reared Iowan who came to Chicago to play professional baseball. He experienced a religious conversion and eventually left baseball to become an evangelist.
Sunday's own story of his conversion is one of the most thrilling of all the evangelist's messages. It is a human document, a leaf in that great book of Christian evidences which God is still writing day by day.