Billy Sunday, Home Run to Heaven (Sowers) (Sowers) |
 enlarge | Author: Robert A. Allen
Publisher: Mott Media (MI)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 463532
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0880621257
Dewey Decimal Number: 269.20924
EAN: 9780880621250
ASIN: 0880621257
Publication Date: November 1, 1985
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Condition: Brand new. Excellent condition of cover and pages. No markings or creasing at all.
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Product Description
A professional baseball player, Sunday's enthusiasm for sports carried through to his religion.
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Customer Reviews:
 This book is a HOME RUN in itself November 9, 2007
Wonderful Story about a most wonderful preacher.
He was truely an amazing man. An easy read but one that is really difficult to lay down until you are finished. I enjoyed it very much.
George Erdel
 Billy Sunday Was An Evangelical Folk Hero September 26, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My neighbor gave this book to me to read when I was about fourteen and just happened to tell her I had never heard of Billy Sunday, an evangelist she'd just mentioned. It's true I had never heard of Billy Sunday before that but every time I hear a reference to him now, I immediately think of this book and that sunny afternoon in 1993.
"Sunday" was a man who began life as a baseball player and remembered his days in that sport and the lessons it taught him about how to work a crowd. This backwoods Hellfire preacher was one of the most famous of all living Americans in his day and he headed open-air revivals the faithful would drive for days on end to reach. His charisma, forcefulness and dyed-in-the-wool sense of conviction gave him a powerful energy that sparked the interest of millions. One thing that I most remember about this brief biography of the first of the great broadcast media evangelists is the tone of respect it has for its subject. In fact it had so much reverence for Billy Sunday that I felt like maybe its lack of impartiality somewhat hamstrung its impartial reporting of the facts. So if anyone wants a celebration of Billy Sunday, this is the book, but for a warts and all portrait, I'd investigate what else is out there.
(Thanks, Mrs. Glenn!)
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