When the author’s father died, Jolley decided that he needed to write something for his sons about what was important in his life. The result, while not afull autobiography, deals with three things in his life that have shaped it morethan others; it is about what he loves: baseball, God, and family, but not necessarily in that order all of the time. This memoir, then, is about what the author“knows” and to that extent, each sentence is true in the best tradition ofHemingway. Safe at Homeis both a phrase used in baseball and an expressionthat captures the importance of family.