The Daffy Dozen, No. 10: former Orioles right-handed pitcher Billy Loes.
It was May 1956 when Buzzie Bavasi, vice president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, called the eccentric young right-hander into his office.
"If you were in my place," Bavasi asked, "what would you do with Billy Loes?"
"Trade him," Loes replied.
Next stop, Baltimore.
He pitched for the Orioles from 1956 to 1959. Before that, in four full years in Brooklyn, Loes pitched in three World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the 1953 fall classic.