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Hidden : 10/13/2018
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Dysfunctional Baseball

The biggest running gag in Peanuts is the neighborhood's dysfunctional baseball team, managed by Charlie Brown.

Charlie Brown is the manager of this team and, usually, its pitcher, with other characters of the strip comprising the rest of the team. Charlie Brown is a terrible pitcher, often giving up tremendous hits which tend to knock him off the mound, leaving him with only his shorts on. However, he shows up for every game with very rare exceptions, and stays even when it starts raining causing everyone else on the team to go home.

The rest of the team is also poor. It includes Lucy as the right fielder, who might just be the worst player in all of baseball. She almost always misses very easy catches before giving Charlie Brown a lame excuse as to why she missed it (But in the TV special It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown, and a series of strips from March 1972, she manages to hit a home run after Schroeder agrees to kiss her if she does so). The team also includes Snoopy as the shortstop, who tends to fall asleep during the game; in at least one strip, a claim is made that he cannot throw, although he can catch the ball rather well using his mouth. The catcher, Schroeder, doesn't know how to throw, and he hides this inability by having something to say to Charlie Brown when walking to the pitchers mound to give the ball back.

Although Charlie Brown was seen catching a ball from the direction of home plate in the comic strip on May 9, 1973, Schroeder is never seen throwing the ball back. Every time that "Pig-Pen" hits a ball he is unable to run as the air is to dirty. Linus has untied shoelaces and bumps every time he runs. Frieda, Violet, 5, Shermy and Patty are terrible at catching. The ball almost always falls on the middle of them. Rerun who played on one occasion, gave the victory to other team. Sally, Eudora and Roy always make excuses for leaving the team. Woodstock and his friends can't use the baseball bat.

Because of this poor team, it consistently loses. This is exaggerated when Peppermint Patty, as a temporary member, hit five home runs and pitched a no-hitter, but the team still lost 37–5. Another time, Charlie Brown admits losing twenty games in a season. The worst game Charlie Brown ever played was when he and his team lost six hundred to nothing against another team. The very next day the newspaper published the score and called Charlie Brown and his team hapless.

No matter how many times their team loses, Charlie Brown remains optimistic at the start of each season, and always says his team is one away from the championship.

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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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