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| Peanuts at Bat
a traveling exhibition of baseball themed Peanuts cartoons |
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One of the most lackluster baseball teams known to the sport must surely be the one managed by Charlie Brown. His team is a motley group of uninspired ball players with a dog—Snoopy—as shortstop. Snoopy, as it turns out, is one of the more talented players on a team that can’t hit, pitch, or field. Every year for nearly fifty years during baseball season, Charles Schulz sent this hapless crew out to lose game after outlandish game. The Peanuts Gang’s ill-fated baseball games were based, to a large extent, on Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz’s childhood experiences playing sandlot baseball. Baseball was Schulz’s favorite childhood sport, but he remembered losing a game once 40 to 0. This game, he said, gave him the idea for Charlie Brown’s string of losses. Schulz’s passion for the baseball continued into adulthood. He played pickup games as often as he could on baseball diamonds he had built at his home and near his studio. Schulz also followed major league baseball and was a keen admirer of Willie Mays and other talented players. Peanuts at Bat showcases some of Schulz’s most memorable baseball-themed comic strips. Forty-three digital prints from the original Schulz drawings are on display, taking the visitor through five decades of the Peanuts Gang engaged in America’s pastime. Included in the exhibition are vintage Peanuts baseball memorabilia and ephemera such as bobble head dolls, banners, and a board game. Also on display are a Louisville Slugger Joe Shlabotnik bat (Shlabnotnik is Charlie Brown’s favorite—underperforming—player, who’s never actually seen in the strip) and an over-sized Snoopy doll decked out in his favorite team uniform. Peanuts at Bat is organized and toured by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Santa Rosa, California. The exhibit's visit to Horsham Township Library is sponsored by the Friends of the Horsham Library. |
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| Read more about Charles Schulz and Peanuts at the Horsham Township Library: | |
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| book: BIO SCHULZ audiobook: AUDIO BIO SCHULZ |
Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis. 2007. A portrait of the late creator of the "Peanuts" comis strip which looks at how his career was shapes by his midwestern working-class origins, family losses, and wartime experiences, offering insight into how familiar storylines closely reflected Schulz'a private life. |
| book: J BIO SCHULZ | Charles Schulz: a Level Two Reader by Cynthia Klingel. A book about cartoonist Charles Schulz written especially for beginning readers. |
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