Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' UnlikelyLove Affair with Basketball by Rafe Bartholomew

Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' UnlikelyLove Affair with Basketball Rafe Bartholomew ebook
Page: 400
Format: pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN: 9780451229991

Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 by happylittlegirl. Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball (NY: Penguin, 2011). If the above phrase means anything to you (or even if it doesn't), I strongly recommend Rafe Bartholomew's, Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball. The stories, often very of Filipino basketball. Whose average male height is 5'5” with a big man's game—is captured in sports journalist Rafe Bartholomew's new book, “Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball. Book Review: Pacific Rims – Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball. If you are looking for Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with BasketballBy Rafe Bartholomew We've got acquired the concept. In Pacific Rims (out today!), Bartholomew not only follows the Alaska Aces—a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) franchise—for a season, but he also weaves in eclectic stories from a land abroad and a league with many seemingly capricious (and often-times sketchy) rules. This is an audio summary of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball by Rafe Bartholomew. It's a bunch of shopper evaluations. Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra, ed. Alyson Nöel, Chris Colfer's The Land of Stories and a lot more. Jonah Keri interviews Rafe Bartholomew, author of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball, and editor at Bill Simmons's new website Grantland. Rafe Bartholomew, the young, 6-3 'giant American' in the land of the Lilliputian-but-basketball-mad, turns the Philippines into a hoops carnival, teaching us as much about this complex nation as any history book. So I just finished reading this book earlier today ( :-o applause for me! Son Rafe's well-received book, Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair With Basketball, has just come out in paperback from New American Library. Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with BasketballBy Rafe Bartholomew description. This week's prize is a signed Copy of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball by Rafe Bartholomew. A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball. As he bounces around the country, he sees playgrounds and makeshift courts filled with youngsters and old-timers alike, balling in flip-flops.