Billy Sunday with His Bible
One of the most popular Protestant preachers of the early twentieth century, Billy Sunday (1862–1935) was a former professional baseball player with an imposing physique and dynamic preaching style. More willing than most of his predecessors to make direct political arguments, Sunday championed antiradicalism and prohibition — stances that foreshadowed the Protestant political crusades of the 1920s. Sunday’s most famous sermon was his antiliquor exhortation, “Get on the Water Wagon.” Library of Congress.