https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/032449https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/032449.jpgPortrait of William Ashley (Billy) Sunday, Evangelist1912Portraits--S.Sunday was a professional baseball player turned evangelist in 1886. He preached to Wheeling crowds in 1912 inside a specially built, 1,500 foot long structure, three times a day for six weeks. 20,000 attended the first day and thousands more followed in the coming weeks. West Virginia History OnView