Peter Falk

Falk’s right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma; he wore a glass eye for most of his life.^[11] Despite this, Falk participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball, as a boy. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, “I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, ‘Try this.’