Pacific Rims
Beermen Ballin' in FlipFlops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball
by Rafe Bartholomew
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appears in Basketball, Sports, and Nonfiction.
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 pol...
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