"Jerry Allen Walker" is a former right-handed pitcher in United States/American Major League Baseball who performed for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics/Kansas City Athletics and Cleveland Indians between and . During his career, he stood tall and weighed . He signed with Baltimore as a "bonus baby" out of Ada's Byng High School on June 28, 1957.

A member of the Orioles' fabled "Kiddie Corps" of young pitchers signed in the late 1950s (others included Milt Pappas, Steve Barber and Chuck Estrada), Walker is one of a very few players to have gone List of baseball players who went directly to the major leagues/straight to the Major Leagues without ever playing a game in the minor leagues. In his debut, on July 6, 1957, against the Boston Red Sox, he failed to retire a batter, issuing bases on balls to Mickey Vernon and Jackie Jensen, then uncorking a wild pitch. Walker then was lifted from the game, but both runners scored, giving Walker an earned run average of infinity coming out of his first MLB game. However, he was consistently more effective as the season progressed, and threw a hit (baseball)/four-hit, complete game shutout (baseball)/shutout against the Minnesota Twins/Washington Senators on September 4, beating Camilo Pascual 1–0 for his first big-league win (baseball)/victory.

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We could quite easily raise enough to provide free tuition.

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Bob told me that had he known playing softball would be so much fun, that he would have retired much sooner to enjoy playing the game.

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I'm a little surprised. I'm overwhelmed.

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I'm very happy they're in town. To us, the more local sports teams that we have, the better. It keeps fans thinking about sports. I don't see them as any type of competition.

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