Sam Malone's Photograph - Behind the great oak bar of the Boston based pub "Cheers" on the situation comedy series CHEERS/NBC/1982-93, there was a black & white photograph of a baseball pitcher, supposedly Sam Malone (Ted Danson), the program's leading character who used to be a relief pitcher for the Red Sox. It was not Sam, however, but a photograph of real-life baseball player, Jim Lonborg who pitched for the Boston Red Sox from 1965-71 and who later became a Boston dentist. In a 1987 episode, Sam Malone gave the photograph away as a keepsake to Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), a bartender at Cheers, when he thought Woody had to move home to Indiana. At the last minute, Woody stayed and so did the photo.