Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

The underdog Orioles went on to sweep the series over a Los Angeles team that featured some formidable pitching of its own in Hall of Famers Koufax and Don Drysdale and 17-game winner Claude Osteen. He also became the only pitcher in major league baseball history to have won World Series games in three decades. 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.

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 was the winning pitcher in 186 games in the 1970s a major league record. He was nicknamed Cakes in the 1960s because of his habit of eating pancakes for breakfast on the days he pitched.