Floyd George Giebell (December 10, 1909 – April 28, 2004) was an American baseball player who is best remembered as the pitcher who, in his third career start, shut out Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians to clinch the 1940 American League pennant for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at and , Giebell threw right-handed and batted left-handed. Early career Born in Pennsboro, West Virginia, Giebell attended Salem International University. His first professional baseball team was the minor league Evansville Bees in 1938. Giebell played briefly for the major league Detroit Tigers in 1939, but he only pitched innings in relief before being sent to the minor league Toledo Mud Hens, where he pitched most of the 1939 season. The 1940 season In September 1940, Giebell was brought back up to the major leagues and had two outstanding starts during the 1940 pennant drive. Giebel pitched a pair of complete game victories and gave up only two runs in 18 innings pitched for an earned run average of 1.00. Giebell got his first start on September 19, 1940, with Tigers and Indians tied for first place. Giebell, who had just been called up from the Buffalo Bisons where he went 15–16, pitched a complete game, giving up only two runs as the Tigers beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 13–2. Pennant-clinching shutout over Bob Feller On September 27, 1940, the Tigers needed one more win to clinch the pennant. With 27 game winner Bob Feller scheduled to pitch for the Indians, Detroit manager Del Baker decided to start Giebell against Feller rather than "waste" his aces Bobo Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe. Time magazine described Giebell at the time as "a gawky stringbean", who "looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound." But, as Time reported after the game, Giebell was "no lamb" that day. Instead, "[w]ith cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians 2-to-0." Feller gave up only three hits for the day, but one of them was a two-run wind-blown home run by Rudy York. That was all the Tigers needed thanks to Giebell's pitching that day. The setting in Cleveland that day was raucous. The Indians had built a reputation as the "Cleveland Crybabies" for their whining about manager Ossie Vitt, and had been subjected to chants of "Cleveland Crybabies", "Boohoo Indians"