Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 22, 2014

You have to be tackled to be out.

Now this would make major league baseball worth watching.

Yesterday, Number Six wrote: “Does anyone know the story behind ‘Pearls Before Swine’ by Bill Watterson?”Hi, Number Six. Good to hear from you again. See my postings here at Calvin and Hobbes from a week ago on Sunday, June 15th. I posted several links, all six strips from the week of Bill Watterson’s collaboration with Stephan Pastis, and the final Calvin and Hobbes strip:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes, June 15th Comments

Here’s one that we read a couple of years ago:Click here:Calvin and Hobbes (June 8, 1992)And here’s one that we read a year ago:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (May 23, 1993)

Baseball could be quite complicated for Charlie Brown’s team also. Here’s one from the fifth year of Peanuts:Click here: Peanuts (July 31, 1955)

For those readers not familiar with baseball, here is the best song about the game by John Fogerty — “Centerfield”-http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04KQydlJ-qc

that’s not fair, Hobbes!!

I love baseball, but the games can be long at times.

Calvin was pretty well winded at twenty-fifth base.

Calvinball is so much better than baseball

True but it looks way harder and exhausting

But, let’s take a break from Calvin’s life on the lam from pushing his folks’ car into a ditch for a little Calvinball…

@Hobbes, thanks again for all your hard work making this strip and the others in your posts so much fun to relive. I love your new links to zoomed in versions of the extra comics. That really helps to see and enjoy them. You’re the best.

Yeah, that was Bugs’ complaint to Angus McRory (“My Bunny Lies Over the Sea”)

I’d love to see …hmm… Kershaw throw a booger ball !!

Calvin should’ve looked on the bright side. At least he was getting exercise. Haha

@belgarathmth: Glad you enjoy the extra strips. I always enjoy revisiting the older strips, so for years I’ve kept track of my favorites and the dates they were published, so that I can locate them again. The tricky thing with GoComics is that a lot of the strips that they have stored under the original dates do not include enlargements. So I generally try to find a rerun of the strip from more recent years where the enlarging is available. The enlargements really allow you to appreciate the artwork a lot more.

@Vince M: Yes, here are some pictures of that Peanuts View-Master set. The characters looked like dolls.

Calvin is just a bundle of energy; he can wear you out just watching him rush around.

Nobody accuses Calvin of being a sissy and lives!

xxx

Who’s On First – Abbott & Costellohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

Cheap rules.

I never could hit a boogerball-hated catching them,though