One advantage in watching comics on the web is that small details that would be easily missed on the newspaper page are more evident. Today, it’s Sally resting her arm on Snoopy’s head in the 3rd panel.
One of the best hitters ever. For completeness, his career batting average – .344; career on-base percentage – .482; slugging+on-base percentage – 1.116 (second only to Babe Ruth). Even his managerial record was not too bad – .429 with the rather awful Washington Senators/Texas Rangers.
Yeah, but she’s still visiting at the school which seems to have students who don’t get jokes…see the pet rock/Pebble Beach joke from a few weeks back.
Check out the comments on this strip for the 2023 cycle (https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2023/03/22)…what else may be in the Maalox bottle? Enquiring minds want to know.
Wasn’t it Ted Williams (among others I’d guess) who said that baseball is the only sport in which you can fail 70% of the time and still be considered pretty good.
Nice one.