Poor old Charlie Brown was trying valiantly to trade his cards for one Joe Shlabotnik. And what a group of cards that he was trying to trade. The names sure brought back memories, especially in these days where I hardly know any players outside of the Sox and Cubs.
Maybe these guys will bring back memories for those of us who tend to be a bit older.
The List:
Whitey Ford
Mickey Mantle
Robin Roberts
Luis Aparicio (Sox)
Juan Pizarro (Sox)
Nellie Fox (Sox)
Frank Lary
Al Kaline
Jerry Lumpe
Harmon Killebrew
Willie Mays
Orlando Cepada
Maury Wills
Sandy Koufax
Frank Robinson
Bill Mazeroski
Warren Spahn
Hank Aaron
Duke Snider
Stan Musial
Ernie Banks (Cubs)
Lucy kept turning him down. Poor Charlie throws most of his cards down and, head down with disappointment, walks away saying, "For five years I've been trying to get a Joe Shlabotnik! My favorite baseball player, and I can't get him on a bubble gum card...Five years! My favorite player..."
Lucy walks away looking at her Joe Shlabotnik card. The last panel, she says, "He's not as cute as I thought he was," and throws it in the trash can.
Poor Charlie Just Can't get a Break. --RoadDog
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Who Was Joe Shlabotnik?-- Part 1
I came across a Classic Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schilz in the August 22nd Chicago Tribune, a Sunday expanded strip where good ol' Charlie is trying to get a Joe Shlabotnik baseball card from Lucy, who won't make a trade.
Charlie offers to trade her some of the best players around in the early sixties, but she constantly refuses.
I was a big baseball fan back then and recognize most of the names Charlie offers, but had never heard of Joe Shlabotnik.
According to Wikipedia's List of Minor Characters in Peanuts, it turns out that Joe was a fictional minor character in the Peanuts strip. He never appeared and wasn't even a good minor league baseball player, yet Charlie Brown inexplicably admired him.
Once, Charlie spent $5 to buy 500 baseball cards (back when the cards only cost one cent apiece and you got that free rock hard piece of bubble gum that broke many a tooth and punctured many a gum with sharp edges). He didn't get Joe.
But, Lucy bought one nickle pack and got Charlie's hero. He tried to trade her, but to no avail as she thought he was "kind of cute."
Charlie even had a Joe Shlabotnik Fan Clun News paper. In he he wrote these superlatives about his beloved Joe: Joe was in the Green Grass League where he batted .143. Plus, Joe made "spectacular catches of routine fly balls" and once "threw out a runner who had fallen down between first and second."
Tomorrow, I will give you a list of the ballplayers Charlie was willing to trade for Joe.
So, That's Who Joe Shlabotnik Is!! --RoadDog
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Charlie offers to trade her some of the best players around in the early sixties, but she constantly refuses.
I was a big baseball fan back then and recognize most of the names Charlie offers, but had never heard of Joe Shlabotnik.
According to Wikipedia's List of Minor Characters in Peanuts, it turns out that Joe was a fictional minor character in the Peanuts strip. He never appeared and wasn't even a good minor league baseball player, yet Charlie Brown inexplicably admired him.
Once, Charlie spent $5 to buy 500 baseball cards (back when the cards only cost one cent apiece and you got that free rock hard piece of bubble gum that broke many a tooth and punctured many a gum with sharp edges). He didn't get Joe.
But, Lucy bought one nickle pack and got Charlie's hero. He tried to trade her, but to no avail as she thought he was "kind of cute."
Charlie even had a Joe Shlabotnik Fan Clun News paper. In he he wrote these superlatives about his beloved Joe: Joe was in the Green Grass League where he batted .143. Plus, Joe made "spectacular catches of routine fly balls" and once "threw out a runner who had fallen down between first and second."
Tomorrow, I will give you a list of the ballplayers Charlie was willing to trade for Joe.
So, That's Who Joe Shlabotnik Is!! --RoadDog
SENIOR BUMPER SNICKERS: At my age..."Gettin' Any?" means sleep!!.
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