Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball
by Rafe Bartholomew
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages400 pages
ISBN
9780451229991
Published
2010
Description
Rafe Bartholomew arrived in manila with little more than a fulbright scholarship and an urban legend that filipinos loved basketball more than anyone else on the planet. He'd heard that the locals constructed jerry-rigge...Rafe Bartholomew arrived in manila with little more than a fulbright scholarship and an urban legend that filipinos loved basketball more than anyone else on the planet. He'd heard that the locals constructed jerry-rigged hoops out of any material they could get their hands on-car hoods, driftwood, twisted rebar-and built courts everywhere, from cluttered street corners to the slopes of volcanoes and in the thick of jungles.
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