Base Ball 10

<p> Offering the best in original research and analysis <I>Base Ball</I> is an annually published book series that promotes the study of baseball's early history from its protoball roots to 1920 and its rise to prominence within American popular culture.</p><p> This volume number 10 brings together 14 articles on a wide range of topics including the role of physicians in spreading early baseball; the game's financial revolution of 1866 when teams began charging a 25-cent admission price; the prejudice that greeted Japan's Waseda University team during its American tour in 1905; the Addie Joss benefit game and its place in baseball lore; the 1867 western tour of the National Base Ball Club; and entrenched ideas about class and early baseball with a focus on the supposedly blue-collar Pennsylvania Base Ball Club.</p>