Anyone who's been a fan of the Peanuts comics long enough knows that Charlie Brown absolutely loves baseball. While he may not always be the best at it, he tries his hardest to do as well as he can.

His extraordinary understanding of how young people speak, think, and feel once made him the perfect choice to bring Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang to the big screen in live-action form.

By then, the growing PEANUTS franchise included multiple spinoffs, including Charlie Brown’s All-Stars! (featuring “Baseball Theme”); It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ...