02526cam a2200385 i 4500 693142790 TxAuBib 20230315120000.0 220421s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021443677 9781948677165 hardcover 1948677164 hardcover TxAuBib rda Rowe, Peggy, author. About my mother [book] : true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir / by Peggy Rowe ; foreword by Mike Rowe. [Place of publication not identified] : Forefront Books, [2018] ©2018. xvi, 174 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. "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." -- (Source of summary not specified). 20230315. Rowe, Peggy. Knobel, Thelma. Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team.) Mothers and daughters. Autobiographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. Baltimore (Md.) Nonfiction. Rowe, Mike, 1962-, writer of foreword. FLSCP