Backwards K Pod; Jim Palmer

Backwards K Pod
Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories
In 1966, a fresh faced, twenty year old kid arrives on the baseball scene, and puts the immortal Sandy Koufax on the shelf, when he beat the icon, in his last baseball appearance; Game Three of the World Series. 17 years later, he’s beating Hall Of Famer, Steve Carlton in game three of the 1983 World Series. In between those amazing book ends, Jim Palmer became the most dominant pitcher, in the American League, during the 1970’s. Beset by arm injuries early, his career seemed stalled to the point, where he contemplated giving up the whole pitching thing and becoming a position player. However through the coaxing and prodding of an adversarial manager, with whom he incessantly and publicly feuds with, he becomes one of the all-time greats.
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