Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball Business Kadal Tahu

Kadal Tahu

224 pages / Hardcover

Published in 2009 by Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino

41 pages / Paperback

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Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball Business Kadal TahuWelcome to the Philippines, where the men are five foot five, the everyman's Air Jordans are a pair of flip flops, and the rhythm of life is punctuated by the bouncing of a basketball. 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