Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 04, 2014

Get the kid a mitt!

ZZZZZap! ;)

Hobbes has the mother of all screwballs…. Detroit should sign himimmediately!

Merely a flesh wound (who remembers Fearless Fosdick?).

Calvin needs a cement pill!

Hobbes Ball’s

Can of corn, Calvin.

Roy Hobbes?

Maybe you shouldn’t play catch on an empty stomach Calvin.

corkscrew!

Reminds me of my husband. He never learned to play catch as a child. I once threw him a roll of paper towels, and the cardboard core hit him in a very “sensitive” spot. I probably said the same thing as Hobbes.

In my second year of Little League eligibility(wasn’t very good my first year: played right field, struck out a lot), my father signed up as a coach. He and my best friend’s father(the coach my first year) decided to find out what positions he and I were best suited for out in our back yard. The very first thing they did was have me crouch down like a catcher and my friend’s father pitched me one. Hit me right between the eyes. After making sure I was all right, my father said “OK, he’s not a catcher”. Turned out, partly because I was a lefty, I was a pretty effective pitcher and first baseman. Strangely, though I was quite good at getting wild throws to first, I sometimes had trouble with the ones right to me. Luckily, in Little League, that didn’t happen very often. :-)

Lighten up, Hobbes

Calvin is bored by baseball.

Excuses, excuses. Haha

Ouch!

xxx

Remember: Baseball is not the “national sport” but the “national pastime” — it’s for passing the time.

In Bloom County, it’s the cat that gets it…Of course, that’s when Opus had a flamethrower.

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Oh man that looks uncomfortable.

Although we,of Red Sox fandom have forgiven him, we remember Bill Buckner miss, “right to him!”!

@francisrossiA glove makes it easier. Just ask Willie Mays.-http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dK6zPbkFnE

trust me, this is nothing compared to my dad