Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 27, 2022

His only fan.

this the last we’ll ever hear of Joe Shlabotnik (until Sparky’s retirement/death 30ish years later)?

let’s hope he doesn’t keep the ball CB! Maybe he wants your autograph

This perspective look of the bus is unusual. Usually, we just see a window with the characters through it.

He finally got to meet him. I remember when I met one of the Doctors, Colin Baker. Never told him my Doctor is Tom.

The biggest loser in baseball’s biggest fan is the biggest loser in the world. I’d be crying too.

With heroes like that, who needs enemies?

His reaction for knowing he has at least one fan.

Good old Charlie Brown! Always trying to keep up a happy outlook, despite his many mishaps.

“Say it ain’t so, Joe!”

Bittersweet…

When I was Charlie Browns age my hero was Evel Knievel. Busted up a few bicycles trying to be like him.

Way to go Charlie Brown…..

Touching.Back to the air races.

When I read these strips as a kid, it didn’t even occur to me that Joe Shlabotnik wasn’t a real baseball player.

“There’s no crying in baseball”—Tom Hanks’s Jimmy Dugan in “A League of Their Own.”

I wonder what Joe ever did to make Charlie Brown look up to him so much.

CB roots for the underdog or the loser.

Wouldn’t CB call him “Mr. S.” and not “Joe”? Kids of that era were more polite to their elders, as well as more respectful.

Well now I’m crying too.

Charlie and a kindred spirit.

lmao