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Shopping Cart & Checkout Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball$24.95 
Welcome to the Philippines, where the men are 5'4", the everyman's Air Jordans are a pair of flip-flops, and the rhythm of
life is punctuated by the bouncing of a basketball. Allured by the idea of an island nation full of people who love the game
as irrationally as he does, American journalist Rafe Bartholomew arrived in Manila to unlock the riddle of basketball's grip
on the Philippines. On his unforgettable journey, Bartholomew spends a season inside the locker room of a Philippine professional
team, dines with politicians who exploit hoops for electoral success, travels with a troupe of midgets and transsexuals who
play exhibition games at rural fiestas, and even acts in a local soap opera. Sweating his way through hard-fought games of
3-on-3, played with homemade hoops for 50-cent wagers, Bartholomew uses a mix of journalistic knowhow and the hard-court ethics
he learned from his dad to get in the paint and behind the scenes of Filipinos' against-all-odds devotion to the sport.
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American journalist Rafe Bartholomew arrived in Manila to unlock the riddle of basketball's grip on the Philippines.
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