Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 11, 2012

Calvin Ball!! There’s nothing better than a rousing game of whatever comes to mind as you play! I can remember games like that when I was a kid. Usually ended in fights :). Not fair!

Snerk!!!

Very intelligent sport, is Calvin Ball.

As a child in the Midwest I never understood why baseball was called the great American sport. For us, it was football and basketball. Then I realised those who coined the term lived on the East coast. It’s a lot more important out there.

I can do at only Gym its like very nice exercising ….

It’s really a strategic enough sport without making making things up as you go along – but it does make it more interesting.

Long live Calvin Ball.

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@Dogsniff: Charlie Brown also plays with girls.

When you’re playing with girls, it’s like Calvinball: You start with second base, then she’ll let you on first. But you have to stay between second and first for a while before she’ll let you on third… And at least it’s not as boring as baseball…

“Get out of jail!” I’ll take this!!

Minor variants on the rules. Don’t you need a “Get Out of Your Room Free” card too Calvin?

Ooo! Do you suppose this was before it got named Calvinball?

Hasbro needs to hire Calvin & Hobbes for game development.

I wish they’d make Calvinball an Olympic Sport.

If it weren’t for the bat, ball and glove, the game hardly would be recognizable as baseball at all!

I have always wanted to play Calvinball in real life.

What gender is Hobbes?

I love calvinball!!

So that’s why it’s so slow.I guess the same applies to golf.I’m too impatient.

Calvin – Forever the Baseball master.

LOL LOL xxx

Yes Sir good old baseball?

lol.

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I love baseball. You sit in the sun on a Sunday afternoon, have a cold beer and bratwurst, talk to your friends…and look at that..there’s a baseball game, too!

Wait a minute ….. they’re starting out with a baseball? Isn’t that rule violation in Calvinball?

@ Dogsniff Her father came in and I was ejected for unsportsman-like conduct.

I play with girls, and I still can’t get to first base.

 

Another good one!!!!! As always, your comments are funnier than the actual comic itself!!! ;-)

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Normally, I’d much rather sit around and watch paint dry or grass grow instead of a boring old baseball game . . . but CALLVINBALL!!!!! Now that’s a completely different “ballgame” altogether! I’d definitely pay good money to watch Calvin and Hobbes play a good ole game of Calvinball!!!

 

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Hey Calvin, is this the way to the bleachers?

Oh boy…this should be good

Not as boring as golf!

Wow! I love watching my favorite team play baseball. Grew up watching it on TV with my Mom. There is a lot of skill to playing the game. I also enjoy watching golf sometimes—lots of luck and skill involved there too. Enjoy football but don’t like head crushing hits. Go Reds & Bengals! :-)

Is that pure joy on Calvin’s face? It sure looks that way. It’s that face many readers came to love through those years.

Well, about this business of playing baseball – For one, this post is so late it doesn’t matter. For two, baseball bats scare me and I could never hit a ball. For three, I would rather play with girls.

Scratch your crotch, adjust your glove, kick the dirt, adjust your sleeve, adjust your helmet, spit, stick one foot in the batters box, take a lazy little one-handed swing, point the bat at the pitcher, put your other foot in the box….. watch a ball go by.. Ball 1…. Ok, start the whole process all over again. That’s baseball.

I retired from the game without ever getting to first base.

lol!! Me and my brothers used to play a game like that. We called it Wall Ball cuz you had to bounce it against the ceiling, then to your hand, then the wall in back of you. and that’s just one point!!!