Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 03, 2015

Charlie Brown’s field of dreams.

You never know, Charlie Brown. Could be he planted corn.

“If you build it, he will come.” And just maybe, “he’ll go the distance and ease Charlie Brown’s pain.”

See…I’ve always felt that a baseball field would be better served as a garden. A football field would also make an excellent garden.

In Shoeless Joe, the novel that the movie Field of Dreams was based on, the main character, Ray Kinsella, has the opposite problem: his Iowa neighbors and others criticize him for “wasting” good farmland by turning it into a baseball field.

Long before the age of shopping centers…

I love Chuck’s angry “unibrow” look.

I admit I’m a little like Charlie Brown even though I’m 56 now. I’ll drive by an open field and try visualizing what a baseball diamond with grandstand and bleachers would look like there. The doctors tell me there’s no cure.

“Shoeless Joe” (filmed as “Field Of Dreams”) wasn’t written until 1982. AFTER this comic.Inspiration, anyone?

“No corn”? Look who’s talking! LOL.

And so it begins…

Why is no one taking the other possibility into account — that Charlie Brown simply HATES vegetables and would much rather see ANY garden turned into a baseball field because of that, not because of some weird “Field of Dreams” obsession?

Why is no one taking the other possibility into account — that Charlie Brown simply HATES vegetables and would much rather see ANY garden turned into a baseball field because of that, not because of some weird “Field of Dreams” obsession?

Why not just pave paradise and put up a parking lot?

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