Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 26, 2024

You have to be tackled to be out.

How many rules are there in Calvinball? I keep losing track.

He should have stayed at 25th, loaded the other 24 bases, and hit a 26 run grand slam.

If you’re playing “Calvinball”, Hobbes—well. you know there are no rules!

No high hurdles?

I love how Hobbes just walks normally as Calvin is busting his hiney to hit the 25th base in Calvinball.

This one just isn’t as funny as “Okay, now the score is oogy to boogy.” But of course not, since anything involving the word “oogy” is funny.

Why did they never have Calvinball in gym class when I was in school?

Calvin is better at this. He can’t get to first base with Suzy. At least yet. Maybe some day. In the future. Probably.

Hobbes plays a canny game. He knows just how long it will take Cal to run the bases he set up.

Wouldn’t baseball be interesting if they had to run 26 bases?

Jump hedges. Dodge angry dogs. Put a nickel in a meter.

Hobbes taking a page from the Gaylord Perry book of pitching in the first panel.

Maybe you should play baseball at recess Calvin. There are only 4 bases.

Too many bases, too little time

Someone should start a Calvinball League

LOL…. what is this? Football or Basball?

I am surprised they can still say “sissy”, lol.

You might get to home quicker running 3 bases instead of 25.

Maybe you been safer to actually run home than home plate.

Three bases only, boys.

Doink ?

Calvin finds out that rules are the way they are for a reason

You’ve got to love how they make baseball more exciting for just the two of them.

Why not stay at 25th? Then he could say he hit a pentaicosaple…

Me never get baseball anyways. It just ain’t cricket.

25 bases? around the block 3 or 4 times? Happy to see Hobbes inter-acting with Calvin again. He’s the reason I read this strip.

Pesäpallo?

Sissy way…MLB’s ghost runner on second in extra inning games