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Pacific Rims

Pacific Rims

Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

by Rafe Bartholomew
Publication Date: 01/06/2010

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Hoops dreams in the Philippines-a fresh and unforgettable basketball diary of one man's journey and one nation's passion.
Welcome to the Philippines, where the men are 5'4," the everyman's Air Jordans are a pair of flip-flops, and the rhythm of life is punctuated by the bouncing of a basketball...
Allured by the idea of an island nation full of people who love the game as irrationally as he does, American journalist Rafe Bartholomew arrived in Manila to unlock the riddle of basketball's grip on the Philippines. On his unforgettable journey, Bartholomew spends a season inside the locker room of a Philippine professional team, dines with politicians who exploit hoops for electoral success, travels with a troupe of midgets and transsexuals who play exhibition games at rural fiestas, and even acts in a local soap opera. Sweating his way through hard-fought games of 3-on-3, played with homemade hoops for 50-cent wagers, Bartholomew uses a mix of journalistic knowhow and the hard-court ethics he learned from his dad to get in the paint and behind the scenes of Filipinos' against-all-odds devotion to the sport.
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ISBN:
9780451229991
9780451229991
Category:
Basketball
Publication Date:
01-06-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
218.44x153.42x32.77mm
Weight:
0.54kg

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