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==Beliefs==

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Sunday famously claimed that he did not know "any more about theology than a jack rabbit knows about pingpong."<ref name=time>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937270-1,00.html Huckster in the Tabernacle], Time Magazine, Oct. 10, 1955 (review of William G. McLoughlin's book ''Billy Sunday Was His Real Name'')</ref>

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Sunday famously claimed that he did not know "any more about theology than a jack rabbit knows about pingpong."<ref name=time>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937270-1,00.html Huckster in the Tabernacle], Time Magazine, Oct. 10, 1955 (review of William G. McLoughlin's book ''Billy Sunday Was His Real Name'')</ref> The New York Times classified him as a fundamentalist—"perhaps the most interesting Fundamentalist, next to Mr. [[William Jennings Bryan|Bryan]]."

He fiercely opposed alcohol:

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