About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir / by Peggy Rowe ; foreword by Mike Rowe.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781948677165
- ISBN: 1948677164
- Physical Description: xvi, 174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: [United States] : Forefront Books, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
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Subject: | Rowe, Peggy. Knobel, Thelma. Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team) Mothers and daughters. Baltimore (Md.) |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 14 of 15 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.
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Marion Library | BIO ROW (Text) | 37810435743967 | Adult Biography | Available | - |