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1) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 174 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
240 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike's rise to fame. Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure and a quirky sense of humor because of their differences. From thoughts of wearing headlamps in the house to save energy, to squeezing out the last drop of toothpaste...
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