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Posted By: Chris Counts

It's not a movie, but it's worth mentioning here. In the early 60s, Charles M. Schulz created a series of "Peanuts" cartoons in which Charlie Brown tries in vain to acquire a Joe Shlabotnik baseball card. In one strip, Schulz mentions dozens of contemporary players from about 1963 as Charlie busts open numerous packs of what were certainly Topps cards. Guys like Mantle and Mays pop up in packs, but never a card of Joe, much to Charlie's chagrin. Another strips mentions Joe went through an entire Major League season with a .004 batting average, which earned him a demotion to Stumptown of the Green Grass League. He later managed a team called the Waffletown Syrups ...