Costume designer Nilo Rodis-Jamero recalls: “Every Friday afternoon, we would play baseball and once I jokingly put a glove on engineer Wade Childress’s head…”

Via Reddit.

(For more Star Wars designs and their origins, check out one of my most popular posts ever, Top 5 Star Wars Designs and What Inspired Them. It used to have a lot more comments — many of them very informative and adding to my research — but they got lost when I switched blog platforms in 2012.  😥 )