Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 07, 2010

Poor Hobbes!

Tennis balls are faster than baseballs. You learn something new each day.

THE BALL IS JUICED!

Nice hit, Calvin!

G’Morning Grog, Marg & Mike!

HOBBES, it’s good for you.. keep you in shape, besides your up next… Then we’ll see a real smirk on C’s face :-)

How about an original Super Ball?

Hey! The Wham-O ball is still around! Who knew? http://www.superballs.com/

Maybe they should play Calvinball instead - then they can use any ball they like!

Hey!! Calvin is good at one sport.

Well .. thats all the payback for Hobbes’ marking the bases so far apart previously .. :D

sweetbill, when Calvin pitches, he uses a bowling ball and rolls it toward Hobbes. That’s the advantage of being the owner of the balls.

No,say it isn’t so, Joe. Calvin beat Hobbes to home?

We did this when I was a kid, but the bat was a broomstick.

hey bird55..I used to have one of those superballs when I was a kid. Used to have a blast with it. It sure did bounce !!

we used to use a superball and plaed on a football field!

I think Hobbes is ready for the Grapefruit League.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Herocoder, you beat me to the punch.

But Calvin must be getting better all the same - it takes a lot to wind a tiger.

But HOBBES!!! Remember the baseball has TEETH!!!!

One of my not so clever ideas years ago was to sneak a superball onto the squash court with me. Part way during the game I switched the ball without my partner seeing and gave my serve an almighty whack! It sure as hell surprised my partner, but more so me, as that ball became a lethal projectile that never seemed to slow down and came from every direction. Floor, walls and ceiling only seemed to make it go faster!! Lying flat on the floor became the best option and eventually it stopped leaving us more than a little shaken. I was so grateful that all the strip lights remained intact otherwise my joke could have got me ejected from the club. I NEVER touched one of those balls again :-)

You better hope this event doesn’t end up in Hobbes letter to Santa Clause Calvin…

Sandfan….Stickball - are you from the East Coast, too?

I wonder if the spammer ever gets business from these annoying ads, or if the purpose is to annoy. Flagged!

calvinball4ever

Consider what you could have done with a “Flubber Ball” (TM) DisneyCo, it would be going still.

Calvinball4ever: I think that’s the best story I’ve heard in a long time. You described it so vividly! I laughed so heard I almost fell out of my chair!

Less distance with a tennis ball, I think. More with a golf ball.

du55…No, strictly a Southern boy. I’ve heard of stickball, of course, but I didn’t know it was played with a tennis ball. I guess the game we played was an Eastern import.

Flagged also.

What about half-rubber? Never got as much as a foul tip, but could throw reasonably well.

Stickball or stoopball were both played with any available ball, but usually a pink Spalding or Pennsy Pinkie ball.

I love it when Calvin and Hobbes get their revenge on each other during thier baseball games!

The two of them have a ball playing it….

He sauntered around the bases!

Calvinball4ever, I laughed so hard! (while trying to be quiet so my wife wouldn’t say “What are you doing?”) Every time I envision it, I start laughing again.

Classic CandH stuff. I do a segment in my classes where I use Calvinball for a metaphor for the way institutions and individuals cahnges the rules as they go along. To reinterpret the rules as you go along is almost the same thing. Vik

Flagged spammer still there 9 hours later. How

much money does Gocomics make on these ads?

boooooo Gocomics.

Come on Calvin you must change to a larger ball , lets give Hobbes a chance or. The bat must be shorter and smaller.

The WHAP of the bat-tennis ball The CRACK of the bat-baseball

Maybe y’all have a good “Mythbuster’s” project here - which gets more distance from a bat - a baseball, a tennis ball, or a golf ball… hmmm…

There’s also a Smithsonian exhibit I remember in which they try other materials for baseballs: clay and lead for sure. Maybe others?

Clay: ball shatters into smithereens and vanishes. Lead: ball breaks the bat off.

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