Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 05, 2020

Before Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth.

you’re quite the batsdog, Snoopy, but I think Linus is referring to a batsman

714?

Snoopy isn’t done yet. He’s going for the grand 1000. Or, as they call it, the grand… grand.

The best player in the league playing for the worst team!

So then this would place this particular strip about "73-’74?

Never saw Snoopy hit a home run though – and hardly ever at the bat.

Finally! The 1973 Snoopy tries to break Babe Ruth’s record arc is rerun after being skipped over in 2001!

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!!!!! It is not seven hundred and eleven. It is seven hundred eleven. And goes between the last whole number and any fractions. eg. three and three fourths or seventeen and five tenths.

Yes I know it’s a losing battle. (math police over and out)

And yet Charlie’s is the losingest team in history

Sad part is, I no longer know who holds the home run record, nor do I care enough to look it up.

Ahhh, I remember it well….

Wait…Snoopy’s got 712 home runs, on a team that has only won ONE game that we know of (which they later forfeited because Linus’ little brother was the Pete Rose of Little League)??? Well, I guess when your ERA is 76.23, these things can happen.

This is another great storyline. Stay tuned.

It’s notch as easy as it seems, Snoopy!

Of course, Snoopy has an advantage; he’s been playing for a long time. He also played another 26 seasons after this, but, mysteriously, all talk of his home run count stopped. Besides, one source shows Josh Gibson had 962 home runs at the time.

Which player is that, Linus?

Nothing wrong with knowing your own achievements.

And yet they still lose every game?

I forget how many but Ruth’s strike out total was pretty epic as well.

How did Charlie Brown’s baseball team lose so much if they had a power hitter like Snoopy?

SPOILER – Schulz used Snoopy as a stand-in for Hank Aaron who, at the time, was also on the verge of breaking Babe Ruth’s record for career home runs and also included some very nasty real-life incidents which are referenced in the subsequent strips.