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Jim Palmer
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 Baltimore Orioles (1965–67, 1969–84) and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in .〔(Jim Palmer (biography) – National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. )〕 Palmer was the winning pitcher in 186 games in the 1970s, the most wins in that decade by any MLB pitcher.〔(Mueller, Bobby. "Jack Morris: the winningest pitcher of the 1980s," The Hardball Times, Thursday, January 26, 2012. )〕 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 268 career victories are currently an Orioles record. A six-time American League (AL) All-Star,〔(Jim Palmer (broadcaster biography) – Baltimore Orioles. )〕 he was also one of the rare pitchers who never allowed a grand slam in any major league contest.〔(Kurkjian, Tim. "The grand slam...unusual, yet fun," ''ESPN The Magazine'', August 17, 2006. )〕
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 20 in 1966.〔 He was one of the starters on the last rotation to feature four 20-game winners in a single season in 1971.〔(Goldstein, Richard. "Mike Cuellar, Star Pitcher for Orioles, Dies at 72," ''The New York Times'', Monday, April 5, 2010. )〕
Since his retirement as an active player in 1984, 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 SportsNet (CSN) Mid-Atlantic and the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN).〔(Jim Palmer (biography) – Premiere Speakers Bureau. )〕 He has also been a popular spokesman, most famously for Jockey International for almost twenty years.〔(Jim Palmer (biography) – CMG Worldwide. )〕 He was nicknamed ''Cakes'' in the 1960s because of his habit of eating pancakes for breakfast on the days he pitched.〔(Eisenberg, John. ''From 33rd Street to Camden Yards: An Oral History of the Baltimore Orioles''. New York City: Contemporary Books, 2001. )〕
==Early years==
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 1955, the nine-year-old Jim, his mother and his sister moved to California, where he began playing in youth-league baseball. In 1956, 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 1963, Palmer signed a minor-league contract at the age of 18.
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