Word: handcuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in May, Pittsburgh's Harvey Haddix pitched the greatest game of his career. There are those that will tell you it was the best pitched game of all time. All Haddix did was to handcuff the power-laden Milwaukee Braves without a single man reaching first base for 12 innings. But Haddix didn't win. Oh, no. Lew Burdette, hurling for the Braves, gave up 12 hits but didn't allow a run either. In the 13th, Pirate third baseman Don Hoak fumbled an easy grounder, ruining Haddix' perfect game, and Milwaukee's Joe Adcock took care...
...take sickening forms. Citing minor errors in the first press accounts of his release, he said that he was misquoted, that he had not seen other prisoners handcuffed, beaten or executed: "The Communists never beat anybody." Rickett conceded that the Communists did have three methods of physical persuasion. They handcuff your hands in front of you; they handcuff them in back; and they manacle hands to feet. "Now being handcuffed is damned inconvenient," said Rickett. "If you have to go to the toilet, for example, it's embarrassing to have to ask somebody to help...
Liebler, a 6-4 right hander, used a side armed delivery to handcuff the varsity's predominantly right-handed attack. He struck out eight and walked five in gaining his first college victory...