Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 28, 2020

When the snow melts, maybe they can form a bowling league ;)

fascinating sportsmanship your neighborhood has, huh, Charlie Brown?

Linus, you’re taking things way too seriously!

I love the way he adds “Charlie Brown” to the end of every sentence addressing Charles

I wonder if this was ever a thing. I can definitely see some people taking it to this level.

If the kids were as invested in baseball as they are in this snowman thing, they might have a good team. Naaahhh, it’s easier to sluff off and blame CB for their failings.

What happen to stress-free fun?

Linus is now a “Snow League” cheerleader?

CB .. you need to pull off a midnight raid on this snow field, along with Snoopy, despoiling the snow by turning it yellow. Let’s see how anxious they are to compete under less than ideal conditions!

Why is Linus wearing a baseball cap in winter with a snow league?

Boy Linus, and I thought you had an obsession over the Great Pumpkin.

This was 1973. Even back then, Charles Schulz could see the harm of this obsession with turning everything into a competition.

If he was really serious, he would be snapping his blanket.

Now that they have rolled the snowball, move that bus!

I loved summer camp! To spend a whole morning at the range shooting rifles or arrows, or the afternoon paddling a canoe, or wandering down trails in the woods. If they were leading a group of boys in some game that looked fun, you could just walk up and join in or go do something else. My younger son was so much like me, poor kid, except he hated camp. I asked him once. “Dad, it’s all about the score. You spend all morning waiting in line for your turn to shoot 5 arrows, then all afternoon waiting in line for your turn to start a fire, then all evening waiting in line for your turn to swim across the pool.” “Yea, Cub. I’d hate that too. Camp is something you do for fun. If it’s not fun for you, don’t go this summer.” Of course, we lived out in the middle of nowhere where he could spend all afternoon shooting arrows, practicing with his knife, wandering the fields and woods, skinnydipping in the pond, watching wildlife… I noticed that we did not often go to a big park like I loved to do as a child, then I realized there was no attraction to that because that was what we did at home.

Wait, isn’t Sally in the league, and thus C.B.’s parents would be going to the same function?

I can hardly believe I’m saying this, but I don’t remember this arc at all.

AH so the truth comes out. A FAKE legue just to give the parents a baloney reason to go out, party hardy, get drunk, and wear lampshades on their heads while laughing at their kids gulibility.

Amazing how adults can ruin a good thing, although not surprising.

Usually Linus is the voice of reason.

If I remember back when this strip originally run (I could be mistaken …) it was viewed as a commentary on the Little League World Series during one of the scandals around eligibility of players or something – I distinctly remember multiple articles in sports magazines discussing the tragedy of baseball being ruined for these children … at the same time that the magazines were ripping kids for less than perfect play. It was a little surreal for me.

CB has a snowball’s chance in hell to figure out this madness! :D