- Billy Loes
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name = Billy Loes
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position =Pitcher
birthdate = birth date and age|1929|12|13
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bats =Right
throws = Right
debutdate =May 18
debutyear =1950
debutteam =Brooklyn Dodgers
finaldate =September 14
finalyear =1961
finalteam =San Francisco Giants
stat1label = Win-Loss
stat1value =80-63
stat2label =ERA
stat2value =3.89
stat3label =Strikeout s
stat3value =645
teams =
*Brooklyn Dodgers (1950, 1952-1956)
*Baltimore Orioles (1956-1959)
*San Francisco Giants (1960-1961)
highlights =
*1955 World Series Championship
*National League Pennants: 1952, 1953, 1955
*1957 American League All-Star
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hofmethod =William Loes (born
December 13 ,1929 inLong Island City ,Queens ) is a formerpitcher inMajor League Baseball . From 1950 through 1961, Loes played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1950, 1952-56),Baltimore Orioles (1956-59) andSan Francisco Giants (1960-61). He batted and threw right handed. In an eleven-season career, Loes posted an 80-63 record with 645strikeout s and a 3.89 ERA in 1190.1innings pitched . He made the American League All-Star team in 1957.Trivia
*The book "" (2004) includes short stories from former Dodger pitcher
Carl Erskine . Loes is prominent in many of these stories.*Before the
1952 World Series , Brooklyn Dodgers' manager Charlie Dressen cornered pitcher Billy Loes.:"I see in the paper where you picked the Yankees to beat us in seven games. What's wrong with you," Dressen said.:"I was misquoted," Loes protested. "I picked them in "six" games." - Baseball Anecdotes [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor1.shtml]*Loes also famously said that he didn't want to be a 20-game winner, "Because then I'd be expected to do it every year." [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EFDC1030F93BA15750C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2]
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Jimmy Breslin , in his book "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?" (about the 1962New York Mets ), referred to Loes as "the only pitcher in history to lose aWorld Series game because he lost a ground ball in the sun."*Loes' Greek immigrant father originated from
Peloponnese , he worked as a laborer in the fur industry and changed their family name from Semertzis to Loes when he arrived in the States. [http://greek-museum.org/newsletter.htm]External links
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=loesbi01 Baseball Almanac] - Player page
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/loesbi01.shtml Baseball Reference] - Career statistics
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/works-progress-administration Answers.com] - References his WPA quote
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