Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 21, 2014

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    BE THIS GUY  over 10 years ago

    That’s what you call a “juiced ball.”

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    rentier  over 10 years ago

    Poor Hobbes, totally exhausted!!

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    BE THIS GUY  over 10 years ago

    @A Common ’TaterYou are correct. A baseball has very little bounce and is extremely hard. Baseball is the root for the American idiom, “playing hardball.”

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    artybee  over 10 years ago

    A batted golf ball gets some serious distance!

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    Ravenswing  over 10 years ago

    Heh, we’d use a tennis ball for street hockey sometimes. That was pretty wild.

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    unnormal  over 10 years ago

    I think it’s something like a super ball in the center of a golf ball that gives it its responsiveness.

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    Manitobaman  over 10 years ago

    I had one of those when I was a kid. Man, you could bounce that thing a mile in the sky.

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    Manitobaman  over 10 years ago

    Or…so it seemed at the time.

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    Kaputnik  over 10 years ago

    This might be the only strip with Calvin and Hobbes playing their two-guy baseball where Calvin actually scores a run.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Looks like Calvin hit a walk-off home run.

    Calvin also had some earlier success at baseball:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (March 7, 1986)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (March 31, 2013)The Peanuts Sunday strips sometimes contained a lot of action in the early days. Here is Charles Schulz’s 12th Sunday Peanuts:Click here: Peanuts (March 23, 1952)
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    dwdl21  over 10 years ago

    Not to nit pick, but a tennis ball would not go anywhere near as far as a baseball

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    hariseldon59  over 10 years ago

    “Back in the day we had what was called a superball. I launched one one day, Never did find it.”

    Yes, I remember those, too, We’d always try to play baseball with them and end up losing them.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Yes, the SuperBall was black, made of amazing Zectron, so it blended in with the ground and became impossible to find after you tried bouncing it over your house (like in the picture on the package). You can buy the SuperBall today on Amazon. But Wham-O really needs to market a new version colored fluorescent orange, with embedded electronic circuitry for computer location.

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    stuestes  over 10 years ago

    My brother-in-law once dropped a superball from the top floor of his house onto the driveway. Never found that one either.

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    n4hhe  over 10 years ago

    A flat tennis ball makes a pretty good backyard baseball. As a kid we never could afford the new tennis balls but loved the old floppy ones handed down from tennis players.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Someday in the very distant future, archaeologists will be baffled when they excavate the remains of the North American continent and they discover thousands of small, hard, black, spherical objects buried in the dirt from coast to coast. One theory will be that our civilization buried them as religious objects to honor the god Wham-O. The puzzle will continue for years until the day when an archaeologist accidentally drops one of the sacred relics on the floor.

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    Karaboo2  over 10 years ago

    Suck it up Hobbs. Your starting to sound like John McEnroe.

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    hariseldon59  over 10 years ago

    All this talk about Super Balls reminds me of the Happy Fun Ball sketch from Saturday Night Live from 1991.

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    mitch079  over 10 years ago

    I used to whap tennis balls with an aluminum bat in my front yard 2 to 3 yards over. Probably lucky I never hit anyone with them or broke any windows XD

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    Number Three  over 10 years ago

    Calvin’s face expression in the 2nd panel reads “Time to go remind Hobbes that he needs to get his head in the game”

    xxx

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    platechick  over 10 years ago

    Me and Cindy Johnson. 5th grade recess. Every day. Good times! :~)

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    InuYugiHakusho  over 10 years ago

    Hobbes seems to usually have the advantage when he and Calvin play sports. Nice to see the tables turned for once.

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    Doug A4  over 10 years ago

    To: leftwingpatriot said, about 14 hours ago

    @A Common ’TaterYou are correct. A baseball has very little bounce and is extremely hard. Baseball is the root for the American idiom, “playing hardball.”—Wrong!… A baseball has a lot of bounce! You must try one instead of speculating…Doug

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    BE THIS GUY  over 10 years ago

    @Doug A4 Take a baseball and bounce it off the ground in a manner similar to a tennis player bouncing tennis ball before a serve.Then we’ll talk.-

    Bouncing balls

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    Susie Derkins D:  about 10 years ago

    Cheat Rules of basebal.

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