When the author's father died, Jolley decided that he needed to write something for his sons about was important in his life. The result, while not a full autobiography, deals with three things in his life that have shaped it more than others; it is about what he loves: baseball, God, and family, but not necessarily in that order all of the time. The memoir, then, is about what the author "knows" and to that extent, each sentence is true in the best tradition of Hemingway.