Originally a player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ), Ichiro moved to North America in 2001 to play in MLB for the Seattle Mariners, with whom he spent 12 seasons.

* Paintball jerseys and pants: Originally derived from motocross and BMX attire, tournament players commonly wear special outer clothing with integrated padding that allows the player a free range of motion, and helps protect the player both from paintball hits and from incidental contact with rocks and hard ground.

Originally a guitar player, D ' Amour became Tool's bassist after being introduced to the band by guitarist Adam Jones.

Originally, Maria ’ s Fantasy Football League had eight franchises drafting from a single player pool.

Originally released as a high fidelity consumer record player, it quickly became adopted among radio and club disc jockeys, thanks to the direct drive high torque motor design, making it, initially, suitable for pushbutton queuing and starting of tracks on radio.

Originally a crackling hard bop player with blazing technique, crisp articulations, and a no-frills sound, Hardman soon began to play with some of the fuller, more extroverted romantic passion of a Clifford Brown, a direction he would take increasingly throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Originally trained as an electrician, he joined the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) of Amílcar Cabral in 1960 and soon became a key player in the territory's guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule.

Originally Pohjola rose to fame as the bass player of the Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam, but he soon departed on a solo career, initially releasing Frank Zappa-influenced progressive rock albums.

Originally a keyboard player, Alan has mainly played Bass Guitar in his professional life.

Originally a tournament backgammon player for eight years, he eventually started playing the stock market, and then moved on to poker.

Originally Hecklers Online virtual " tokens " were given out as prizes to the highest scoring player on each team at the end of the month, but this practice was later dropped at the request of players who wanted to discourage new players from joining just for the tokens.

Originally only two towns Rucesion and Mileth were involved in the player run politics, but later the separate in game continent of Medenia has also developed a player run politic of its very own.

Originally, they were even on points with Kölner BC 01, but Köln fielded an ineligible player in one match.

Originally, the championship was by invitation only and could only be won by players who would be eligible to compete internationally for Scotland, but sometimes a titled player of another nationality was invited to compete in order to make title norms more likely.

: Originally in MSX Parodius, this simply strips the player of all power-ups and sets movement speed to normal.

Originally, the developers were intending to feature this Vortigaunt as an ally character who, if players rescue him, would fight enemy characters alongside the player.

Originally he wanted to become a famous soccer player, but he decided to turn to artistry as an occupation instead.

Originally, the player who answered the most riddles in the week won a car ; this was dropped, and instead a car was given to anyone who answered all 15 riddles in the same game.

Originally teams alternated turns taking guesses after each puzzle piece was removed ; in later episodes, pieces were removed one at a time until one player buzzed in with a correct answer.

Originally signed as a backup player for Internazionale, he became a key player of the league victory, in light of all the injuries to Patrick Vieira.

Originally the celebrity player acted out the words ; beginning June 10, 1985, the civilian player chose which team member would act and which would guess.

Originally created with the intentions to " come up with a good, marketable character ", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $ 750 million to $ 1 billion annually.

Originally, Curry rehearsed the character with a German accent and peroxide blond hair, but the character evolved into the sly, very upper class English mad scientist and transvestite that carried over to the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and made Curry both a star and a cult figure.

Originally they were subdivisions of the royal administration, but from the 13th century A. D. they became self-governments of the nobles and kept this character until the 19th century when in turn they became modern local governments.

Originally appearing on Channel 4's The 11 O ' Clock Show, as the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show in 2000 and on HBO in 2003 – 2004, he is also the title character of the film Ali G Indahouse.

Originally conceived by Charles Addams for the character eventually named Pugsley in the 1960s television series, the name was rejected back then due to fears that 1960s network censors would not allow it because of its similarity to the words " pubic " and " puberty ".

Originally, the lead character was a young Jewish broker named Freddie Goldsmith but Stone changed it to Bud Fox to avoid the stereotype that Wall Street was controlled by Jews.

Originally known as Dippy Dawg, the character is more commonly known simply as " Goofy ," a name used in his short film series.

Originally, Hayakawa's character was described as a Japanese ivory merchant.

Originally Morecambe and Wise objected to sharing a bed ( which would become one of their most popular and fondly remembered character traits ), but Braben countered that if it was good enough for Laurel and Hardy it was surely good enough for Morecambe and Wise.

Originally, her character was written to be white and Jewish ( however, Lark aced the audition and they awarded her the role ).

Originally known for his work as a comedy actor, Phillips subsequently made the transition to character roles.

Originally, Bullock's character " Annie " was intended to be a comical sidekick to Jack.

Originally called Hoodooville after William Burrows, a local character called Hoodoo Billy, the name was changed to honor General John W. Sprague, a railroad executive.

Originally this theme appears to have been introduced simply to acknowledge the back-history of the JSA in DC continuity ( another fairly new development for comics ), later it was to become a major theme for character development.

Originally created by the company Aldus for use with what was then called " desktop publishing ", the TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications.

Originally called the Casbah by its creators, it was deliberately designed with vast amounts of blank surfaces on the idea that tenants would provide the colour and character via their signage and store frontages.

Originally, there was a stereotypical and amoral Jewish moneylender in his place ( variably called Don Jacoibo or Don Salomón ), but this character was replaced due to complaints.

Originally, the cause was believed to be an inherent weakness of character or constitution.

Originally, Giles was to appear in " A Hole in the World " as the one whom Angel and Spike approached in an attempt to save Fred, because Whedon needed a character who would be instantly believed ( by the characters and by the audience ) when he said there was no way to save Fred.

Originally an off-screen character, then shown only with his back to the camera or only in voice, Brady began to make full-face appearances in season four.

Originally, the character Spike ( mentioned as Fonzie's nephew in the episode " Not With My Sister You Don't ," but also claimed to be his cousin, as was stated in one episode ) was supposed to be the character who became Chachi.