Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 24, 2024

Yeah, sure, Ed believed his rival and just didn’t pitch that night, and no one else on the team, including the manager and coaches, thought to ask him why he wasn’t ready to go? Wasn’t he dressed and at the ballpark, like all minor league players are required to be? And none of the “big league scouts” sent there to check out Ed Crankshaft wondered about his absence? Put “professional sports” under “burning down a garage” on the list of things Batiuk knows nothing about.

For comparison: gocomics.com/crankshaft/2018/02/23

Makes you wonder why his teammates hated him so much.

Yet he once pitched to Hank Greenberg.

There’s still a significant amount of illiteracy to this day

lot of spelling errors

I knew Ao Nrtzy. He had one heck of a curveball. Nice guy.

Look like the guy who was wrotes that piece of paper was not knows to writes too. It’s called writing!

“That’s tough. Now go home.”

So he burned down book stores?

Lillian said, yes I know, you’ve told me 47 times. Don’t start on the congressional Medal of Honor one.

Wouldn’t you need to know how to read to be a B-17 pilot?

And even if he did pitch for the big league scouts… And they offered him a contract… He would’ve been able to read it anyway.

I could not read that either!!!!

So Ed just didn’t even show up for the game since he thought he wasn’t pitching. That makes total sense. Because if he did show up, the manager would have told him to start warming up. Plus, how did they get anyone to start the game? If normal procedure is to not show up when you aren’t pitching, the other starters wouldn’t have shown up either.

And why was this one game the only one that scouts were going to attend? He’s in the minor leagues. He already was scouted! And they monitor how the minor league players are doing year round. They don’t just sign them to a contract, them come to see them one day a year.

Wait, I know. It’S oNlY a CoMiC! An alleged quarter inch from reality comic.

If Ed couldn’t read, how did he know what his contact said?

Ed is like Shoeless Joe Jackson then.

i thought he missed the game because he had a bad case of trigger finger ?

Never been to a Mudhens game and I live but 50 mls from there.

It took me a little bit to figure out that in Ed’s eyes, as he hadn’t learned to read, the roster was just a jumble of letters

Given that Ed told this yarn in February of 2018, with Lillian watching and listening, has the Pulitzer-worthy message of the story changed from “book burning is bad” to something about dementia and memory loss?

From MAGA domestic terrorism to an after-school special. Good ol’ Batty.

batty knows nothing about sports thats why he pretends to be a winnipeg bombers fan because no one will research that

And another thing. Just because someone can’t read doesn’t mean they can’t recognize their own name. Unless they’re blind.

I can read but not that “list”

crank just found out dale evans doesnt have the fluffest pancakes ROADTRIP on the way

I just found out that this is National Banned Books Week! So of course Tom stops talking about banned books.

You know who doesn’t care about books being banned? The illiterate.

He’s pulling out all the stops. Will next week be all the Rough Riders he put through college coming back to tout their success?

Now the B&D are going to tackle the issue of dyslexia?