Nineteen seasons in the big leagues, six World Series appearances, three rings. I'd say Palmer belongs in the Hall of Fame, for sure. He was the center of a great Baltimore pitching staff of the late 60's and 70's. He also did underwear commercials, and the chicks dug him. Or is that digged him? My spell checker is placing a squiggly red line under the word digged, so maybe the chicks dug him. I remember great matchups between the A's and O's in my childhood: Blue, Odom, Hunter and Palmer, Dobson, McNally, Cuellar. Never were it an easy task to beat the Orioles. The A's took them down twice in the '73 and '74 ALCS, and the O's won in '71. I remember this card when I was a kid, but somehow the image isn't what I remember about Jim Palmer. Maybe it's the shadow from his hat that crosses his eyes. I don't know. Either way, it wouldn't have been easy to get a hit off him.
Cartoon: What happened in game 11? How lucky were his socks then? Did this have anything to do with underwear? Socks are classified as underwear, right?
Ballpark background: Palmer is wearing home whites, and the batter's rump is in road gray. The blueish fence in the background is consistent with other Oriole players in this set whose card photos were obviously taken at Memorial Stadium. So, that's what I'm guessing.
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