Baseball's high-priced bonus player is as often as not a disappointing flop. Two current examples: Pittsburgh's Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right in Brooklyn's backyard at Astoria, L.I.
Loes signed...
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