Sport and Revolutionaries examines the role that sport has played in political activism and revolutionary movements.

The book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

1. Last Man Picked. Do Mainstream Historians Need to Play with Sports Historians? Paul Ward

2. Sports History: Outside of the Mainstream? A Response to Ward's 'Last Man Picked' Matthew L. McDowell

3. Cracks in the (Self-Constructed?) Ghetto Walls? Comments on Paul Ward's 'Last Man Picked' Malcolm MacLean

4. 'The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice: Reflections on the "New" Cultural Turn in Sports History' John Hughson

5. The Sporting Image: A Personal Journey Utilising History to Develop Academic Inquiry and Creativity Iain Adams

6. 'Ordinary working men . . . transformed into giants on the rugby field': 'Collective' and 'Individual' Memory in Oral Histories of Rugby League Rob Light

7. Asylums and Sport: Participation, Isolation and the Role of Cricket in the Treatment of the Insane Rob Ellis

8. What's the Point of Sports History? Martin Johnes

John Nauright is Professor of Sport and Leisure Cultures, Director of the Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies, and Head of Research in the School of Sport and Leisure Management at the University of Brighton. He is the author and editor of sixteen books and numerous refereed articles in Sports Studies.

David K. Wiggins is Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Sport and Leisure at George Mason University, former Editor of Quest and the Journal of Sport History, and Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology. He is the author and editor of numerous books and essays on the history of sport.