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Author:

Rowe, Peggy, author.

Title:

About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir / Peggy Rowe ; foreword by Mike Rowe.

Publisher:

Forefront Books,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvi, 174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Rowe, Peggy.
Knobel, Thelma.
Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team)
Mothers and daughters.
Baltimore (Md.)
Autobiographies.

Other Authors:

Rowe, Mike, 1962- writer of foreword.

Contents:

Take me out to the ball game! -- Home fires -- Only the good stuff -- Facing the music-- Miss Blevins -- Ahead of her time -- the Christmas conspiracy -- Just the two of us -- Religion and horses -- Family: for better or worse -- Paradise found -- Moving on -- New territory -- Up in smoke: Marriage and the family -- Bragging rights -- Our Christmas close-up -- The day mom and I ate at the White House -- the Rascal Scooter -- A whole new ballgame: the most exciting day of mom's life - Epilogue -- Family Remembrances -- Discussion questions for books clubs by Marjie Rowe.

Summary:

Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised and embarrassed than Peggy. Life became a series of compromises-- and they discovered that sometimes, we're more alike than we know.

ISBN:

9781948677165
1948677164

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