All the great people and great things in life are failures. It is in doing what we cannot do but must try to do that humans rise to their exalted fulfillment. Maglie had tried to do with an old man's arm and back what a young man might not have been able to do as well. Of such failures is greatness made.

On Sal Maglie's departure from Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, from A Day in the Bleachers (1955) by Hano, p. 114