Right-handed baseball glove worn on the left hand of center fielder Willie Mays during the 1954 World Series. A baseball glove or mitt is a large leather glove worn by baseball players of the defending team, which assists players in catching and fielding balls hit by a batter or thrown by a teammate.
Although he later played Frasier's father Martin Crane on Frasier (1993), John Mahoney appeared on a 1992 episode of Cheers (1982) as a pianist who was hired to write a jingle for the bar.
The role: Dr. Frasier Crane. Who got it: Kelsey Grammer. Then coming off of back-to-back Oscar nominations for his supporting turns in The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment, John Lithgow was sought after to play the part of Dr. Frasier Crane, when the character was only intended to be a guest star.