Word: stringbeans
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...