Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 11, 1960

Transcript:

Linus and Charlie Brown are standing on the pitcher's mound in full baseball gear. Linus says, "You'd better pitch this next guy something pretty tricky, Charlie Brown..."<BR><BR> Linus walks up to Charlie Brown on the mound and says, "I'd like to see you throw him an 'expectorate ball' but I guess you can't..."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown watches Linus walk down the mound. Linus says, "They've banned the 'expectorate ball' so there's no sense in even talking about it!"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown looks at the reader and says, "If you stand on a pitcher's mound long enough, you meet a lot of strange people!"<BR><BR>