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Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 18, Lisa rated it it was amazing Shelves: 5-stars , favorites , non-fiction , historical-stories , library , sports-stories. In the wartime fall of , at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, The Eagles were the highest scoring basketball team. Across town at Duke University the Blue Devils were the best basketball team and they were prepared to accept any challengers.

So for the first time in history this secret game was set up way before it's time to see who was the best of the best. I loved this story and hearing about the history of the times and how basketball started. I am not a basketball fan b In the wartime fall of , at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, The Eagles were the highest scoring basketball team.

I am not a basketball fan but that did not take away from this story. View all 4 comments. Mar 25, Ross Mckinney rated it it was amazing. I'm giving this a slightly higher rating than it's earned because I think everyone should read it, and probably only basketball fans will. The game is one chapter of the book - that's really not what the book is about. But it's a shaggy dog story that takes themes that tie together in the game - people's lives, Jim Crow laws, the amazi I'm giving this a slightly higher rating than it's earned because I think everyone should read it, and probably only basketball fans will.

But it's a shaggy dog story that takes themes that tie together in the game - people's lives, Jim Crow laws, the amazingly bad way that African Americans were treated and the sub-culture that resulted. This book is a slap in the face, a sharp reminder of how badly Americans treated Americans only decades ago. And for that reminder, the book is brilliant and needs to be read. It's well written - one of those pieces of history and this is a history book that's a page turner while it's building its themes.

It's also a vital reminder of how closely below the veneer of everyday life hate lies in human cultures. It's not a heavy book, not preachy, just good.

And definitely worth reading. Very highly recommended, even to non-basketball fans. Jan 29, Tim Baumgartner rated it it was amazing Shelves: biography , education , history , basketball , non-fiction , leadership , sports , coaching.

I really hope this book becomes a movie! I saw it through the words of the author though! And these white people were supposed to be Christians!?!?!?

Give me a break! Historian Scott Ellsworth brings out the needle in a haystack on this VERY well-written, image-conjuring, fact-checked, completely courageous, intentional previ I really hope this book becomes a movie! Historian Scott Ellsworth brings out the needle in a haystack on this VERY well-written, image-conjuring, fact-checked, completely courageous, intentional preview of what life is supposed to be like when we view one another as equals and not less than one another.

Ellsworth really creates suspense and anticipation for the reader to appreciate the climax. It brought me to tears and I wept several times thinking of how the events that took place were so awesome and remarkable! Why were others SO afraid to confront the status quo??? Growing up, I wanted to die on the basketball court one day, as an act of devotion. Thankfully, God has allowed me to mature since then, but what an honor it was for those involved to risk it all for what was so incredibly right!

For those who coach, play, and watch the game of basketball—it includes SUCH a great secret that has been hidden for decades. View 2 comments. Nov 18, Elizabeth Moore rated it it was amazing. FANtastic read, all puns included. I could not put Scott Ellsworth's The Secret Game aside long enough to get more than a few hours' sleep. It is one of the few books I have read, deliciously, in a 24 hour period. Most interesting. I reside in Durham, and like any place I have ever lived, albeit not many, I research where my feet have landed, and was aware of some of the rich history of the area: the tobacco farmers and the cigarette industries, the Duke Family and others like the Camerons, Mangums, and so on, Black 'Wall Street' and NC Mutual Insurance, Jim Crow and segregation, the start of NC Central and even Duke University, itself.

Ellsworth brought it all to life, and I understood, finally, much of what had hadn't come across in 'history' books. The Secret Game is just that. I hesitate to spoil the story line, so let it suffice that the 'secret game' is a Sunday morning competition between the NC College for the Colored's Eagles versus the Duke University's Medical Military ball team not the Blue Devils, for clarification.

Each, a team of proven national champions, each hesitant to confront one another on the court at NCCC, each part of a miraculous moment in the history of the sport, in race relations, human relations, love of the game.

This, set against a backdrop of a piece of the South, often most unflattering, at the time. Toss in brief history asides of James Naismith and the invention of the game,the YMCA, the ball, itself, early uniforms and shoes including the Converse high tops , and what the early coaches Naismith, to some extent, John McLendon, Phog Allen, and even Dean Smith, to name a few mastered, the beginnings of leagues and tournaments and star players, and you have.

Scott Ellsworth's The Secret Game. Jul 24, Terrence rated it it was amazing. Scott Ellsworth has written a story that is fascinating on so many different levels. Yet, Ellsworth provides a page-turning story describing the backgrounds of the participants of the game and how they ended up participating in the game. His background of life in the South during the s makes it crystal clear why the game was such a tr Scott Ellsworth has written a story that is fascinating on so many different levels.

His background of life in the South during the s makes it crystal clear why the game was such a triumph in an era where black and white Southerners lived in 2 different worlds and rarely mixed on any type of equal footing.

As an added bonus despite being an avid student of the game of basketball and its history, I also learned new details about how basketball became the popular college sport that it is today. It is very evident from the beginning that this is a well-researched book and Ellsworth takes the "facts" and transforms them into an engaging story of courage, societal and personal change, and the role a basketball game played in it all.

Every American should read this book. My grandmother hammered home the fact that "If you don't know your history, then you are doomed to repeat it. Scott Ellsworth provides insight into this history and perhaps sends each of us the message that we all must make courageous choices and not accept the status quo if we are to ever achieve racial harmony and a true "color-blind" society. Scott Ellsworth has written a riveting tale about basketball and how a game played in the wartime South helped to break down racial barriers and signaled the coming of a new era for both the sport and the country in general.

Jan 07, Jay Townsend rated it really liked it. Slow read but very informative and interesting. Any sports fan or individual with a love for history will be intrigued.

Mar 15, matt rated it it was amazing. Her legs never fully developed; she also contracted polio. Tao got her first wheelchair when she was a teenager.

Before that, she had to crawl wherever she wanted to go. Both Sieng and Tao spent years hating their bodies and resenting what had happened to them. But with every ball that went through the hoop, every dribble, and every shared struggle over lunch with their teammates, they realized that their bodies were still strong and capable of wonderful achievements. The team called themselves the Battambang Roses. They had basketball shirts made in a mustard-yellow color, to represent the architecture of their city.

For years, they practised on a court with old wooden hoops, surrounded by mango trees and coconut palms. The air in the court carried a whiff of frangipani flowers, which often fell from the trees and piled on the ash-grey asphalt. Back in Battambang after the qualifying games, joy transformed into anxiety. Sieng had bigger responsibilities now and less than six months to prepare. Our society is already discriminating against us.

We must be kind to each other. If we don't love and support each other first, no one will. One month before the games, the National Paralympic Committee of Cambodia invited the Battambang Roses to Phnom Penh, the capital, where the team would get to practice in professional facilities.

Then, they would fly to Jakarta. Her tiny tin house, which she shares with her two sons, is located in lush rural Battambang. You see? There are not enough wheelchair facilities. Her neighbor promised to take care of her sons while she is away. After an intense schedule of training in Phnom Penh, seven Battambang Roses, now representing Cambodia, boarded a plane to Jakarta singing folk songs and Buddhist blessings.

The glitzy megacity of Jakarta pulsated with the energy of hosting one of the most important sporting events of the year. The Cambodians first game was against Iran. Iran won it, 86 to For the next game, they faced a formidable opponent—China, who had already beaten Iran 94 to They are taller. They have money. China won the game, to In the changing rooms, she approached the Chinese captain and shook her hand.

Tao leaned her head against the window and covered her face with a shawl. We can still compete for the third place. We are learning so many new techniques from our opponents. Homesickness, culture shock, and stress had started to take a toll.