It is said that over 100 million people heard Billy Sunday preach and one million are said to have 'hit the sawdust trail' a term used to describe those coming forward in the huge wooden structure he would erect for a citywide campaign.
He began as a professional baseball player and was converted through the Pacific Garden Mission, helping J Wilbur Chapman, before working independently.
Sunday developed a preaching style which combined plain speaking with humour, he was strongly fundamentalist in his theology and opposed evolution, gambling and the alcohol business.
This book tells the story of a man and his work and in most it will be the man who will speak his own message.
