James Alvin 'Jim' Palmer (born October 15, 1945) is a retired American right-handed pitcher who played all of his 19 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the. For our latest mission, we turned a little league baseball game in Hermosa Beach, California into a major league event. Enjoy the video below and then go behind the. Play the ultimate Fantasy Basketball Game with exclusive Player Rewards and Benefits. PLAY NOW: Use your basketball skills to win up to $1,100 in cash prizes.
Jim Palmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jim Palmer. Pitcher. Born: (1. 94. 5- 1. October 1. 5, 1. 94. New York City, New York.
Batted: Right. Threw: Right. MLB debut. April 1. Baltimore Orioles. Last MLB appearance. May 1. 2, 1. 98. 4, for the Baltimore Orioles. MLB statistics. Win–loss record. Earned run average.
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Member of the National. Baseball Hall of Fame. Inducted. 19. 90. Vote. 92. 6% (first ballot)James Alvin "Jim" Palmer (born October 1.
American right- handed pitcher who played all of his 1. Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Baltimore Orioles (1.
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1. Palmer was the winning pitcher in 1. MLB pitcher.[2] He also won at least twenty games in each of eight seasons and received three Cy Young Awards and four Gold Gloves during the decade. His 2. 68 career victories are currently an Orioles record.
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A six- time American League (AL)All- Star,[3] he was also one of the rare pitchers who never allowed a grand slam in any major league contest.[4]Palmer appeared in the postseason eight times and was a vital member of three World Series Champions, six AL pennant winners and seven Eastern Division titleholders. He is the only pitcher in the history of the Fall Classic with a win in each of three decades. He was also the youngest to pitch a shutout in a World Series at age 2.
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He was one of the starters on the last rotation to feature four 2. Since his retirement as an active player in 1. Palmer has worked as a color commentator on telecasts of MLB games for ABC and ESPN and for the Orioles on Home Team Sports (HTS), Comcast Sports.
Net (CSN) Mid- Atlantic and the Mid- Atlantic Sports Network (MASN).[6] He has also been a popular spokesman, most famously for Jockey International for almost twenty years.[7] He was nicknamed. Cakes in the 1. 96. Early years[edit]Palmer was born in New York City.
Shortly after his birth, Palmer was adopted by Moe Wiesen, a garment industry executive, and his wife Polly from Harrison, New York. After his adoptive father died in 1. Jim, his mother and his sister moved to California, where he began playing in youth- league baseball. In 1. 95. 6, his mother married actor Max Palmer, from whom Jim Palmer took his last name. Showing talent at the amateur level, upon graduating from Arizona's Scottsdale High School in 1. Palmer signed a minor- league contract at the age of 1. Career in baseball[edit]A high- kicking pitcher known for an exceptionally smooth delivery, Palmer picked up his first major- league win on May 1.
Yankees in relief at home. He hit the first of his three career major- league home runs, a two- run shot, in the fourth inning of that game off of Yankees starter Jim Bouton. Palmer finished the season with a 5–4 record. In 1. 96. 6, Palmer joined the starting rotation. Baltimore won the pennant behind Frank Robinson's MVP and Triple Crown season. Palmer won his final game against the Kansas City Athletics to clinch the AL pennant.
In Game 2 of that World Series at Dodger Stadium, he became the youngest pitcher (2. World Series shutout, defeating the defending world champion Los Angeles Dodgers, 6- 0. The underdog Orioles swept the series over a Los Angeles team that featured Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Claude Osteen. The shutout was part of a World Series record- setting 3. Orioles pitchers. The Dodgers' last run was against Moe Drabowsky in the third inning of Game 1.
Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave Mc. Nally pitched shutouts in the next three games.
During the next two seasons, Palmer struggled with arm injuries. He threw just 4. 9 innings in 1.
He regained his form after undergoing surgery, working in the 1. Instructional League and playing winter baseball. He had been placed on waivers in September 1. Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots in the expansion draft one month later, but was not claimed.[9]In 1. Palmer returned healthy, rejoining an Orioles rotation that included 2. Dave Mc. Nally and Mike Cuellar.
That August 1. 3, Palmer threw a no- hitter against Oakland, just four days after coming off the disabled list. He finished the season with a mark of 1.
ERA, and . 8. 00 winning percentage. The heavily favored Orioles were beaten in the 1.
World Series by the New York Mets with Palmer taking the loss in Game 3. The Orioles won two more championships in the next two seasons. In 1. 97. 0, Cuellar went 2. Mc. Nally 2. 4–9, Palmer 2.
Pat Dobson going 2. Only one other team in MLB history, the 1. Chicago White Sox, has had four 2.
Palmer won 2. 1 games in 1. Cy Young Award. His success was interrupted in 1. Palmer had lost seven games in a row by the time he went on the disabled list on June 2. He was diagnosed with an ulnar nerve injury and orthopedic surgeon Robert Kerlan prescribed rest, hot and cold water therapy and medication.
Surgery was considered, but Palmer's pain lessened and he was able to return to play in August. He finished 7–1.
Again, Palmer was at his peak in 1. ERA—all tops in the American League. He completed 2. 5 games, even saved one, and limited opposing hitters to a . He won his second Cy Young Award, and repeated his feat in 1. During the latter year, he won the first of four consecutive Gold Glove Awards. Jim Kaat, who had won the award 1. National League, where he won the award that year and in 1.
In 1. 97. 7–7. 8, Palmer won 2. During the period spanning 1. Palmer had won 2.
During those eight 2. During that span, he threw between 1.
Over the next six seasons he was hampered by arm fatigue and myriad minor injuries. Even so, he brought a stabilizing veteran presence to the pitching staff. His final major- league victory was noteworthy: Pitching in relief of Mike Flanagan in the third game of the 1. World Series, he faced the Phillies' celebrity- studded batting order and gave up no runs in a close Oriole win. The 1. 7 years between his first World Series win in 1. World Series for an individual pitcher in major league history. He also became the only pitcher in major league baseball history to have won World Series games in three decades.
Also, he became the only player in Orioles history to appear in all six (1. World Series appearances. Palmer was the only Orioles player on the 1. World Series. He retired after being released by Baltimore during the 1. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1. Early broadcasting career[edit]From 1. Palmer formed an announcing team with Al Michaels and Tim Mc.
Carver at ABC. Palmer announced the 1. World Series, where he was supposed to team with Michaels and Howard Cosell.
Mc. Carver replaced Cosell for the World Series at the last minute after Cosell released a book that was critical of the ABC Sports team. Palmer was present at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 1. Loma Prieta earthquake hit prior to Game 3 of the World Series. After the 1. 98. 9 season, ABC lost its contract to broadcast baseball. Palmer had earned $3. ABC that year for appearing on around ten regular season broadcasts and making a few postseason appearances.[1.
In 1. 99. 0, the Los Angeles Times reported that Palmer was thinking of pursuing work as a major league manager. Instead, Palmer worked as an analyst for ESPN and as a broadcaster for Orioles games on their local television station.[1. Comeback attempt[edit]In 1. Palmer attempted a comeback with the Orioles. Palmer said that he wanted to make sure that he had not retired too early. ESPN, which was trying to cut expenses, had asked him to take a pay cut and to sign a three- year contract. Palmer said he would sign a one- year contract for less pay, but ESPN refused.
I wouldn't be here today if the broadcasting climate had been more to my liking. That was really my prime motivation, the fact that I no longer had that obligation," Palmer said during spring training.[1. Covering Palmer's spring training workouts, Richard Hoffer of Sports Illustrated said that Palmer's comeback was not entirely about money.
He wrote that "it is fair to suspect that a certain vanity is involved."[1. Hoffer said that Palmer "has failed to excite either ridicule or astonishment. He's in fabulous condition, no question.
But no matter whom he lines up with on the row of practice mounds, there is more pop in the gloves of catchers other than his."[1. While working out at the University of Miami during his comeback attempt, Palmer was approached by Miami assistant coach Lazaro Collazo. Collazo reportedly told him, "You'll never get into the Hall of Fame with those mechanics." "I'm already in the Hall of Fame", Palmer replied.[1.
To help Palmer's pitching motion, Collazo and Palmer completed unusual drills that involved Palmer placing a knee or foot on a chair as he tossed the ball.[1. After giving up five hits and two runs in two innings of a spring training game, he retired permanently. Palmer said that he tore his hamstring while warming up for the game, commenting, "I'm not saying I wouldn't like to continue, but I can't," he said. I heard something pop in my leg yesterday.
It wasn't a nice sound. I don't know what that means, but I think it's going to play havoc with my tennis game."[1. He retired with a 2.
ERA. Return to broadcasting[edit]From 1. Palmer returned to ABC to broadcast with Mc. Carver and Michaels. He is currently a color commentator on MASN's television broadcasts of Oriole games.
He is known for his incisive criticism of the team's play and unwillingness to give steroid- era hitters the equal approval with regard their statistics. In July 2. 01. 2, Palmer put up for auction his three Cy Young Award trophies and two of his four Gold Glove Awards. At this point in my life, I would rather concern myself with the education of my grandchildren," he said.[1.
Palmer also noted that his autistic teenage stepson would require special care and that "my priorities have changed."[1.