Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball
Jun 2010 · Penguin
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A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball.
In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball.
From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections, Pacific Rims gets the story-and gets in the game.
In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball.
From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections, Pacific Rims gets the story-and gets in the game.
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4.2
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June 27, 2012
I am not a huge sports person, but this book opened my eyes to the excitement of basketball and the richness of Filipino culture. The author's humor in light of his cultural journey made it a fun and heartwarming read!
A Google user
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May 23, 2012
Rafe Bartholomew's book talks about the people of the Philippines.What makes the Filipinos discerned from everyone else in the world was that they play basketball without wearing shoes. He includes the Filipinos passion for playing basketball in barrios, streets, and watching PBA (Philippine Basketball Association).
rj dela cerna
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September 13, 2014
Been itching to read this for ages.hope it will be on sale
About the author
Rafe Bartholomew is the author of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball. For more than four years, Bartholomew worked at the ESPN website Grantland.com as a senior editor. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Seattle Weekly, and The Best American Sports Writing 2007. He currently lives in New York.
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