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Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball Paperback - 2011
by Bartholomew, Rafe
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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.
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Details
- Title Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball
- Author Bartholomew, Rafe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley
- Date 2011
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0451233220I4N00
- ISBN 9780451233226 / 0451233220
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.13 x 5.59 x 0.9 in (20.65 x 14.20 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Basketball - Philippines - History, Basketball - Social aspects - Philippines
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.323
Summary
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.