{"id":7665,"date":"2010-04-23T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:34:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:34:40","slug":"web-pick-of-the-week-baseball-and-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=7665","title":{"rendered":"Web Pick of the Week: Baseball and Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Web-Pick\"Nearly three weeks into the MLB season and Kansas City Royals fans haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been given much reason to believe 2010 is going to be any different to previous years.\u00c2\u00a0 Rational people might suggest that Royals fans should just go and support someone else, but anyone who follows a sports team knows that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not an option. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tend to choose your team, your team chooses you and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re tied together from them on, through good times and bad.<\/p>\n

There are many coping mechanisms that can be employed to get through the lean years and gallows humour is one of the most attractive.\u00c2\u00a0 With this in mind, appreciate the Royals Review blog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brilliant depiction<\/a> of how their team bears an uncanny similarity to the heroically useless Peanuts baseball team.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure there are people in the UK whose only exposure to baseball is via the Peanuts strips and Snoopy cartoons.\u00c2\u00a0 The tales of Charlie Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s baseball team have been a long-running theme in the classic Charles Schultz strips since their inception in 1950 and they never fail to fill me with joy whenever I look back at some of them.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my favourites is from a week in July 1961 (starting from here<\/a>) when Schroeder decides to quit the team in favour of devoting more time to practicing at his piano, leading poor old Charlie Brown to bemoan that he had been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153beaned by Beethoven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

The strips are all available via an online archive at Snoopy.com<\/a>, but the best resource from a baseball fan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view is at wezen-ball where you can bury yourself in the fruits of Lar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s labour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s web pick looks at two baseball bloggers’ use of the classic Peanuts strips <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-web-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7667,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions\/7667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}