Book
About my mother : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Publication Information
[Place of publication not identified] : Forefront Books, [2018]
Physical Description
xvi, 174 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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." --
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.