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Book Review


Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862–1935. By Robert F. Martin. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xviii, 163 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-34129-9.)

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. Starting first with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Chicago, Sunday eventually began his own traveling ministry in the small towns of Iowa. By the 1910s, most of Sunday's preaching missions were in cities of over a hundred thousand, and in 1917 his career peaked with a two-month campaign in New York. Well over a million people attended those meetings, and nearly a hundred thousand went forward to profess faith in Christ. . . .
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