Adopted Orioles legend finally finds out the answer to the riddle of his birth at age 72 with a DNA test

The mystery surrounding a secret 'Kennedy' which appeared on the birth certificate of baseball legend Jim Palmer (left in a recent picture and inset, in his heyday), spurring decades of suspicion, has finally been solved thanks to DNA testing. The retired Baltimore Orioles pitcher had always known he was adopted. Palmer had a privileged upbringing; raised by Polly, a boutique owner, and Jim Wiesen, a wealthy Manhattan dress designer, with his adoptive sister Bonnie, at their luxury Park Avenue home with a family butler named George. He later became Jim Palmer, after Jim Wiesen died of a heart attack in 1955, and his adoptive mother married Max Palmer, a Hollywood character actor, and the family moved to Beverly Hills, California. All he knew was a tie to the Kennedy name. A relative of his adoptive mom glimpsed the name 'Kennedy' on Palmer's New York City birth certificate. Pictured right: John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.