He did it. Of all the players, of all the people who might have done it, he did it. Nobody expected him to do it, but he went out there and started to pitch, and then little by little, inning by inning, he began to do it, and the very breathing of the crowd changed. There was no rudeness in the crowd. The Series had everything, or very nearly everything.
Nothing is swifter than time gone, or more final than fact established.
Sal Maglie pitched and won the first game for the Dodgers. He worked, as he always does, with intense concentration and control. It was a good game. It had form. Mickey Mantle homered early in the game, but it didn't stop Maglie.