FBC Baseball

William Ashley Sunday, better known as Billy Sunday, was born in a log cabin in Ames, Iowa, in 1862. He never knew his father because he died from pneumonia in a Civil War camp in Patterson, Missouri, when Billy was only one month old. His mother was so poor that she put Billy and his [...]

In the old days of classic baseball, the winter months would prevent baseball’s most devoted fans from enjoying their favorite pastime – the ‘old ball game’.  The closest substitute they could find was long afternoons around a hot stove in the barber shop or general store.  It was around the hot stove that baseball’s wildest [...]