Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 05, 2021

Touché, (non-Peppermint) Patty.

And how many plyers you can keep on your roster at any given time.

You have to calculate your percentage of the sponsorship deals, Chuck.

Enough players on the field… begging your pardon, but isn’t that what managers are for?

How’s he gonna calculate his batting average?

The worst pitcher in little league and he thinks he’s going to go pro?

Even in 1953, industry demanded much more.

I babysat for trust fund baby. When they started school they tested with dyslexia, but mom didn’t want them to get the remedial help they needed, “no child of mine would be in special ed” etc…. Horrified, I protested they needed to know how to read to get a job! Mom, aghast, sniffed that her darling, “will never need a job.” This was the moment my brain grokked exactly what it meant to be “that rich.” At least I had the presence of mind to shoot right back, “Well, they’ll still need to read their financial statements and contracts to make sure they aren’t being ripped off, right?”

them statisticians know some math…gotta calculate WHIP and VORP and such…

Baseball is full of statistics these days – particularly since the advent of Moneyball.

When I taught HS science, kids would tell me they didn’t need what I was teaching because they would get rich from sports or music. I would smile and say, “Not with that work ethic.” :-D

Later strips show he learned to count until at least 150. That’s the number of runs the other team had scored!