30 Facts About Jim Palmer

1. Jim Palmer is well known for his focus on The Dark Knight Goes up, Titanic (1997) and Thor (2011).

2. Jim Palmer tried to help the birth mother regain custody, when Nancy was little, but the woman just stopped coming to court.

3. In 2006, Jim Palmer acquired a penthouse condominium in Little Italy, Baltimore, which he uses while in Baltimore for Orioles' broadcasts.

4. Jim Palmer is currently a spokesman for the national "Strike Out High Cholesterol" campaign.

5. Jim Palmer donated all proceeds from the sale of his underwear poster to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

6. Jim Palmer has periodically appeared in ads and commercials for vitamins and other health-related products.

7. Jim Palmer won spots on six All-Star teams, received four Gold Glove Awards and won three Cy Young Awards.

8. Jim Palmer is the only pitcher in big-league history to win World Series games in three decades.

9. In July 2012, Jim Palmer put up for auction his three Cy Young Award trophies and two of his four Gold Glove Awards.

10. Jim Palmer is currently a color commentator on MASN's television broadcasts of Oriole games.

11. Jim Palmer wrote that "it is fair to suspect that a certain vanity is involved.

12. Jim Palmer said he would sign a one-year contract for less pay, but ESPN refused.

13. Jim Palmer had earned $350,000 from ABC that year for appearing on around ten regular season broadcasts and making a few postseason appearances.

14. Jim Palmer was present at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17, 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit prior to Game 3 of the World Series.

15. Jim Palmer was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1990, his first year of eligibility.

16. Jim Palmer retired after being released by Baltimore during the 1984 season.

17. Jim Palmer was the only Orioles player on the 1983 championship team to have previously won a World Series.

18. Jim Palmer became the only pitcher in major league baseball history to have won World Series games in three decades.

19. Jim Palmer won his second Cy Young Award, and repeated his feat in 1976.

20. Jim Palmer was at his peak again in 1975, winning 23 games, throwing 10 shutouts, and fashioning a 2.09 ERA—all tops in the American League.

21. In 1969, Jim Palmer returned healthy, rejoining an Orioles rotation that included 20-game winners Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar.

22. Jim Palmer regained his form after undergoing surgery, working in the 1968 Instructional League and playing winter baseball.

23. Jim Palmer 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.

24. Jim Palmer formally changed his last name upon his mother's marriage to actor Max Palmer in 1956.

25. Two days after his birth, Jim Palmer was adopted by Moe Wiesen and his wife Polly, a wealthy Manhattan dress designer and a boutique owner respectively who both lived on Park Avenue.

26. Jim Palmer was nicknamed Cakes in the 1960s because of his habit of eating pancakes for breakfast on the days he pitched.

27. Jim Palmer is the youngest to pitch a complete-game shutout in a World Series, doing so nine days before his 21st birthday in 1966.

28. Jim Palmer is the only pitcher in the history of the Fall Classic with a win in each of three decades.

29. Jim 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.

30. Jim Palmer won at least twenty games in each of eight seasons and received three Cy Young Awards and four Gold Gloves during the decade.