Charlie Brown in Peanuts vs. Crash Davis in Bull Durham

Since I have the same birthday as Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, I have been meaning to post my favorite Sunday strip on my blog on our shared birthday for the past couple of years, but I always forget. I sometimes forget my own birthday, so I’m not going to remember anybody else’s, unless that anybody else is a close friend or family member. I think I maybe remember five birthdays a year.

Besides, I’m not the type who wishes a happy birthday to celebrities online.  I figure celebrities already have enough people wishing them a happy birthday.  Yeah, I know it’s narcissistic to focus on one’s own birthday instead of a celebrity’s, but that’s just how I am.

I think I received this Peanuts book on one of my birthdays in the early 1970s.  Or it might have been Christmas.  Either way it was a cool gift. 

The cover of the book that has my favorite Peanuts strip reminds me of a scene from the movie Bull Durham, which came out in the late 1980s.  From what I understand, conversations like this on a pitcher’s mound aren’t that uncommon, so I’m not going to accuse the scriptwriters of stealing from Charles Schulz.

Oh yeah, that Peanuts cartoon on the cover isn’t my favorite, but my favorite is in that book.  I’m going to save my favorite for my birthday… if I remember to post it… which I probably won’t.