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Rafe Bartholomew is the former features editor at Grantland and the author of Two and Two: McSorley\u2019s, My Dad, and Me.\n\n \u201cI never saw it as something negative because [my dad] comes out, to me, at the end, extremely heroic. \u2026 He becomes this dad who I idolized as a bartender, a guy who would hang out with me and make me laugh, a guy I just adored almost every step of the way. I mean, of course, everybody gets into fights. But to me it was always so obvious that he had overcome the problems in his childhood, he\u2019d overcome his own drinking problem, he\u2019d done all these things, and by the time I was older, he\u2019d even found a way to get back into writing and self-publish a couple of books of poems about the bar. So he\u2019s sort of managed to tick off all those goals, just maybe not on the same schedule, maybe not in the most normal way.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, V by Viacom, and 2U for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@Rafeboogs\nrafebartholomew.com\nBartholomew on Longform\nPacific Rims: Beermen Ballin\u2019 in Flip-Flops and the Philippines\u2019 Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball (Berkley \u2022 2011)\nBartholomew\u2019s Archive at Grantland\nTwo and Two: McSorley\u2019s, My Dad, and Me (Little, Brown & Company \u2022 2017)\n"The Old House at Home" (Joseph Mitchell \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 Apr 1940)\n[3:45] Bartholomew\u2019s Archive at Harper\u2019s\n[22:00] The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (Darcy Frey \u2022 Mariner Books \u2022 2013)\n[22:00] Swee\u2019 Pea: The Story of Lloyd Daniels and Other Playground Basketball Legends (John Valenti \u2022 Atria \u2022 2016)\n[29:00] Coverage of Grantland at Deadspin\n[29:30] "The Legend of the Iron Five" (Chuck Klosterman \u2022 Grantland \u2022 Jun 2011)\n[24:11] "Press X for Beer Bottle: On L.A. Noire" (Tom Bissell \u2022 Grantland \u2022 Jun 2011)\n[37:10] "Mayweather-Pacquiao: A Sad Morning in Manila" (Grantland \u2022 May 2015)\n[38:30] "One Hundred Years of Arm Bars" (David Samuels \u2022 Grantland \u2022 Aug 2015)\n[44:30] "Death and Tradition at the U.K. Grand National" (Sam Knight \u2022 Grantland \u2022 Apr 2013)\n[45:00] "Dropped" (Jason Fagone \u2022 Grantland \u2022 Mar 2014)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices