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The all-time classic cartoon Peanuts reaches out to a new audience of kids in the specially curated series of AMP! Comics for Kids.
Put me in, Coach!
The Peanuts gang is ready to play ball in this collection of baseball-themed cartoons. Some of the most popular Peanuts moments happen on the field and they're gathered here for a season full of enjoyment. As manager of the endlessly losing team, Charlie Brown soldiers on to keep his team's spirits up, while being constantly blown off the pitching mound in a clothes-exploding fashion. It doesn't help that his catcher is a musician by nature or that his shortstop is a dog. Not to mention that center-fielder Lucy can't keep her mouth shut long enough to know what's going on in the game! Put them all together and you get a game plan for laughs!
First published in 1950, the classic Peanuts strip now appears in more than 2,200 newspapers in 75 countries in 25 languages. Phrases such as "security blanket" and "good grief," which originated in the Peanuts world, are now part of the global vernacular, and images of Charles Schulz's classic characters---Charlie Brown kicking the football, Lucy leaning over Schroeder's piano---are now universally recognized.
Put me in, Coach!
The Peanuts gang is ready to play ball in this collection of baseball-themed cartoons. Some of the most popular Peanuts moments happen on the field and they're gathered here for a season full of enjoyment. As manager of the endlessly losing team, Charlie Brown soldiers on to keep his team's spirits up, while being constantly blown off the pitching mound in a clothes-exploding fashion. It doesn't help that his catcher is a musician by nature or that his shortstop is a dog. Not to mention that center-fielder Lucy can't keep her mouth shut long enough to know what's going on in the game! Put them all together and you get a game plan for laughs!
First published in 1950, the classic Peanuts strip now appears in more than 2,200 newspapers in 75 countries in 25 languages. Phrases such as "security blanket" and "good grief," which originated in the Peanuts world, are now part of the global vernacular, and images of Charles Schulz's classic characters---Charlie Brown kicking the football, Lucy leaning over Schroeder's piano---are now universally recognized.
224 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2014
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Charles M. Schulz
3,020 books1,641 followersCharles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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August 22, 2020
Not much thought has gone into the formatting, nor indeed the wisdom of putting together an exclusively baseball-themed collection of Peanuts strips. (The humour of repetition really needs space to breathe.) On a plus side, the entire undertaking is in glorious colour.
May 4, 2020
I love these books.
January 16, 2016
The baseball-related comics are probably my least favorite of the various types of Peanuts comics, but I still enjoyed this collection. :)
January 21, 2021
This definitely isn’t my favorite of the Charlie Brown comic collections, but it was a wonderful rest and reset read. The nostalgia was so prominent that at points it made me want to cry. These stories involving Charlie Brown are just simply ones that we will cherish for the rest of time.
The only reason this doesn’t receive 5 stars is simply because the baseball comics have never been my favorite of Charlie Brown, and over 200 pages of them is just a lot for someone that holds that opinion.
Would I recommend this? Of course! I may even tell my brother about it, and he doesn’t get many book recommendations from me.
The only reason this doesn’t receive 5 stars is simply because the baseball comics have never been my favorite of Charlie Brown, and over 200 pages of them is just a lot for someone that holds that opinion.
Would I recommend this? Of course! I may even tell my brother about it, and he doesn’t get many book recommendations from me.
February 6, 2024
This was a great book i loved a lot, but it did get a bit boring because the same thing was happening on every single .
It was OK TOUGH.You Should read it if you like Charlie brown and baseball
It is also funny so I think you should try it out and hopefully you will like it more then I do
I do love peanuts characters especially snoopy and I like Lucy because she is always bossing people around😍😍😍🤪🤩
It was OK TOUGH.You Should read it if you like Charlie brown and baseball
It is also funny so I think you should try it out and hopefully you will like it more then I do
I do love peanuts characters especially snoopy and I like Lucy because she is always bossing people around😍😍😍🤪🤩
January 23, 2021
Definitely disappointed; I expected better since I’ve been a Peanuts fan since I was a kid.
Still enjoyable, but those who have mentioned that it could use a breather between the baseball comics was dead on!
I liked the extra at the end was nice.
Still enjoyable, but those who have mentioned that it could use a breather between the baseball comics was dead on!
I liked the extra at the end was nice.
October 7, 2017
Peanuts ROCKS!!!😀
Schulz makes awesome comics about a group of funny kids! My mom loves Charlie Brown comics and movies!🎬🎥📙📘 You should read them! You will be laughing OUT loud!
Schulz makes awesome comics about a group of funny kids! My mom loves Charlie Brown comics and movies!🎬🎥📙📘 You should read them! You will be laughing OUT loud!
November 3, 2017
The perfect complement to the World Series. A collection of baseball-themed "Peanuts" cartoons.
November 6, 2019
Always love reading Peanuts comics!
July 6, 2020
I thought it was humorous. Just it repeated itself too much.
December 26, 2020
A fun collection of baseball strips. I wish there some more older (classic) ones thrown into the mix.
January 17, 2023
Not as good as the other but still very much entertaining.
July 31, 2024
A volume of baseball-themed comics
December 7, 2020
Solid Charlie Brown.
November 23, 2021
It’s a ‘purely baseball’ collection of Peanuts comic strips - with Charlie Brown as the ever charismatic manager, snoopy as the ever reliable shortstop, Lucy as the ever sarcastic outfielder, etc. It’s really a lot of fun! I don’t really know much about baseball but I still totally enjoyed that. I was literally subjected to fits of knee-slapping laughter in the middle of reading it in public whereby people around me were simply staring. But more than the humor, there’s a deep philosophic metaphor that runs through it about how life is much like a baseball game.
July 29, 2023
Poor old Charlie Brown! (smh)
His baseball team never seems to have any good luck in their games, but gee, I wonder why! None of Charlie Brown's teammates take him seriously as a manager and don't seem to take playing baseball seriously either.
This book had a lot of moments that were LOL funny. I remember when I was a kid, I used to crack up laughing at the moments where not only did Charlie Brown get knocked down on the pitcher's mound during a game, but all his clothes fell off of him as well. (It's crazy how children see partial or complete nudity as the funniest thing ever) Then as I got older, I would find myself shaking my head and saying, "That poor boy! He never got a break!"
His baseball team never seems to have any good luck in their games, but gee, I wonder why! None of Charlie Brown's teammates take him seriously as a manager and don't seem to take playing baseball seriously either.
This book had a lot of moments that were LOL funny. I remember when I was a kid, I used to crack up laughing at the moments where not only did Charlie Brown get knocked down on the pitcher's mound during a game, but all his clothes fell off of him as well. (It's crazy how children see partial or complete nudity as the funniest thing ever) Then as I got older, I would find myself shaking my head and saying, "That poor boy! He never got a break!"
January 19, 2015
Hilarious memories and truths!
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