There's a Thelma Knobel in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge-the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Today, Thelma would be described as an alpha personality. But while growing up, her daughter, Peggy, saw her as a dictator-albeit a benevolent, loving one. They clashed from the beginning¬¬¬¬-Peggy, the horse-crazy tomboy, and Thelma, a genteel controlling mother, committed to raising two refined, ladylike daughters.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-Thelma tolerating a daughter who pitched manure and galloped the countryside, while Peggy learned to tolerate the whacky Orioles fan who threw her underwear at the TV, shouted insults at umpires, and lived by the orange and black schedule taped to the refrigerator door¿
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mrw Productions, LLC
ISBN-10
0692090894
ISBN-13
9780692090893
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038831216
Product Key Features
Book Title
About My Mother : True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother
Author
Peggy Rowe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Baseball / General, Parenting / Motherhood
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation