Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Bas ketball

by Rafe Bartholomew

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101187913
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	502 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Hoop Epiphanies 9

2 Alaska in the Philippines 27

3 A Career Reborn 44

4 A Head Start Becomes Destiny 55

5 From Savior to Lemon, in 48 Minutes 80

6 The Birth of Paeng Bartolome and Other Initiations 110

7 The Legend of the Black Superman 134

8 A Rim in Every Baryo 156

9 Fil-Am or Fil-Sham? 198

10 Courts of Public Opinion 238

11 My Big Break 270

12 Hee-neh-bra! 292

13 Skirts Versus Squirts 320

14 Powers that Be 331

15 The Gift of Basketball 355