Not Bad Thanks
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'Not Bad Thanks is worthy reading for anyone who has an interest in sport,
especially the thousands who play for fun, yet compete for their version of
glory.' - Lindsay Gaze, Australian basketball legend
Absurd, theatrical and comical, the curiously-named team Not Bad Thanks, born
of London seed in 1980, takes 70 seasons to crawl from lowest F Grade in the open-age Victorian Business Houses Basketball Association in Melbourne to play
at the A level. The Club grapples with tragedy, authority, an outing, generational
challenges, equal opportunity, skill shortage, globalisation, an aging workforce,
dysfunctional patrons, media scrutiny ... and, premiership droughts. Premierships
are won, though, but in weird circumstances.
Dubious links with notorious Great Train Robber, Ronald Biggs, triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva, NBA superstar Magic Johnson and The Harlem Globetrotters emerge, alongside songs and poetry, season dinners, crazy awards, impromptu late-night excursions, rules and rituals, facts and figures, and the organisation's enduring creativity, intellect and non-conformity.
Still, there's unfi nished business for the Club's current eclectic crop of on-court
ambassadors.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR This is Graeme Willingham's fi rst book, but he has been a newspaper journalist in Victoria and London, a Public Relations communicator in a variety of industry sectors, and an occasional travel writer. He has written for The Ballarat Courier, The Sun News-Pictorial and The Age in
Victoria before news-editing a weekly business-industry magazine in London. He crossed over to PR back in Melbourne, just as Not Bad Thanks was born, in 1980.
Author: Graeme Willingham
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Published: 2018, Wilkinson Publishing, Australia
Genre: Ball Games: Court & Indoor
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'Not Bad Thanks is worthy reading for anyone who has an interest in sport,
especially the thousands who play for fun, yet compete for their version of
glory.' - Lindsay Gaze, Australian basketball legend
Absurd, theatrical and comical, the curiously-named team Not Bad Thanks, born
of London seed in 1980, takes 70 seasons to crawl from lowest F Grade in the open-age Victorian Business Houses Basketball Association in Melbourne to play
at the A level. The Club grapples with tragedy, authority, an outing, generational
challenges, equal opportunity, skill shortage, globalisation, an aging workforce,
dysfunctional patrons, media scrutiny ... and, premiership droughts. Premierships
are won, though, but in weird circumstances.
Dubious links with notorious Great Train Robber, Ronald Biggs, triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva, NBA superstar Magic Johnson and The Harlem Globetrotters emerge, alongside songs and poetry, season dinners, crazy awards, impromptu late-night excursions, rules and rituals, facts and figures, and the organisation's enduring creativity, intellect and non-conformity.
Still, there's unfi nished business for the Club's current eclectic crop of on-court
ambassadors.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR This is Graeme Willingham's fi rst book, but he has been a newspaper journalist in Victoria and London, a Public Relations communicator in a variety of industry sectors, and an occasional travel writer. He has written for The Ballarat Courier, The Sun News-Pictorial and The Age in
Victoria before news-editing a weekly business-industry magazine in London. He crossed over to PR back in Melbourne, just as Not Bad Thanks was born, in 1980.
Not Bad Thanks