he said i think billy touched the hearts of not only christians but people of all faiths because he was such a good man. i was privileged to have him as a personal friend. he would come to maine to visit with baasha and i and he was a great sport. he loved going fast in my boat. i guess you could say we had that in common. when i said speaking of sports, we re reminded in the family s press release this morning, governor huckabee, of him once saying as a young boy called then billy frank, he preferred baseball to religion. i detested going to church when recalling his youth. it is a remarkable story to look back at this man s life. it is. he was a person who came to christ in a revival, a tent revival that he attended with his close friend, grady. and they went to it, heard mordecai hamm preach when he was a teenager. like so many people whose life is focused on christ, he came