- James Alvin "Jim" Palmer is a retired American right-handed pitcher who played all of his 19 years in Major League Baseball with the Baltimore Orioles and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990
| Born: | 15 October 1945 Comment | | How old is Jim Palmer in 2024? / Age: | 78 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
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Jim Palmer facts
- Palmer was the winning pitcher in 186 games in the 1970s, the most wins in that decade by any MLB pitcher
- 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, he was also one of the rare pitchers who never allowed a grand slam in any major league contest
- 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 is also the youngest to pitch a complete-game shutout in a World Series just nine days short of his 21st birthday in 1966
- He was one of the starters on the last rotation to feature four 20-game winners in a single season in 1971
- 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)
- He has also been a popular spokesman, most famously for Jockey International for almost twenty years
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