Rafe Bartholomew Livres

Pourquoi avez-vous eu envie d’écrire ce livre?Nous voulions parler d’une histoire d’amour encore jamais racontée : l’histoire d’une invention canadienne qui a pris le contrôle des États-Unis et du monde. D’un soi-disant « sport de l’homme blanc » qui est devenu un moyen pour les gens de couleur, les femmes et les immigrants de revendiquer une nouvelle place dans la société. D’un sport qui exige tout de ceux qui l’aiment, mais qui donne tant en retour. À qui s’adresse-t-il?A tous les passionnés de Basket, à ceux ne connaissant pas l’histoire de la NBA, et même aux incollables sur le sujet, qui seront surpris de découvrir de nombreuses anecdotes inédites! Qu’allons-nous y découvrir?Les moments historiques du basket vus à travers les histoires individuelles, la personnalité et les opinions parfois divergentes des plus grands joueurs et entraîneurs du basketball : Adam Silver, David Stern, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson, et tant d’autres! Pourquoi pensez-vous que nous allons l’apprécier?C’est LE livre que tout passionné de basket se doit d’avoir! Il apporte des nuances et une perspective indispensables aux récits les plus connus de l’histoire du basket, avec des témoignages inédits et les confessions des plus grandes stars.

Welcome 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 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.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.

Since 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. But it's also home to the deeply personal story of the author, who grew up there, and his father, Geoffrey "Bart" Bartholomew, who has worked the taps for forty-five years. Rafe's story is a big-hearted memoir about family, and a rich history of New York's beloved landmark pub.