Tim McGraw: A Mothers Story

by Betty Trimble

Book Overview

The remarkable account of how Betty Trimble, mother of country superstar Tim McGraw, struggled against extraordinary odds to make a better life for herself and her children. An unforgettable... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886371326
• ISBN13: 9781886371323
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: D'Agostino/Dahlhauser/Ditmore Pub.
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The most honest book I have ever read

I like how honest Tim McGraw mama is in this autobiography

A VERY GOOD READ

This book was a very good read. If you are a fan of Tim Mcgraw you will like this book. Betty had a very hard life and she is a strong woman. I think it was sad that Tug did not want to step up to the plate and take care of his son. He did not even want people to know about Tim for many years. then Betty married a man that beat her. it was good to read that she got away from him. This book is very good and a fast read. even you are not a fan of country music I think you will like this book. Betty was honest in telling her story.

A story of inspiration, courage and determination!

This Startling autobiography by country music superstar Tim McGraw's mother, Betty "McMom" Trimble reveals her ultimate triumph over a life of astonishing pain and hardship. Illegitimate teenage pregnancy. A husband who beat her to unconsciousness. Extreme poverty. Life-threatening cancer. And the sexual molestation of her daughter. A chain of challenges that could have defeated anyone. But Betty would not give up. With each new hurdle she summoned the strength to survive. Tim McGraw A Mother's Story begins with 11-year-old Tim's accidental discovery that his real father is baseball great Tug McGraw. In a heart wrenching passage, Betty "McMom" Trimble describes her young son's struggle to come to terms with an onslaught of painful truths: that the man who Tim thought was his father for 11 years was not; that Tim's real father was a wealthy and famous athlete whom he idolized and whose baseball card was taped to his bedroom wall; and that that same famous celebrity, baseball great, Tug McGraw, had chosen a life without him. Trimble recounts her fateful encounter with McGraw in 1966, then a minor league pitcher with the Jacksonville Suns. When she became pregnant after her first and only sexual encounter, McGraw chose a baseball career over Trimble and their son. Betty chose motherhood over her plans for college and a career as a dancer. Tim never saw his father until he asked for a meeting following his discovery of the truth. "Tug's treatment of Tim broke my heart," said Trimble. "But Tim has always been a survivor. Instead of becoming angry, the experience made him stronger and more compassionate." His father's rejection was but one of many hardships endured by Tim and his family. Trimble recounts her struggle to survive extreme poverty and protect Tim from the abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband, a truck driver in rual Louisiana. In simple, moving prose Trimble documents a bleak existence for her family. One painful episode after another unfolds, leading up to Trimble's diagnosis of life-threatening cancer at the age of 27. Ironically, the desease saved her life. After a successful operation, she determined to make a better life for herself and her family. Trimble left her abusive husband, completed her education, became a bookkeeper and bought a house--all while raising three exceptional children. The family still lived hand-to-mouth, never receiving any money from Tim's increasingly famous and wealthy father. And more hardships followed, including the sexual molestation of her daughter by her second husband. But Trimble's spirit would not be crushed. "I hope others can learn from my experience," Trimble said. "No one should have to endure the kind of pain I lived through." Betty Trimble is affectionately known as "McMom" by a growing circle of fans and admirers. She recently saw history reverse it's self. As a young dancer, Betty received an audition for Dick Clark's Action Dancers in 1967. Her audition date fo