After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.

The Baltimore Suns Linda White recalled, " I followed the adventures of Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins and Dondi, and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football.

He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In the Peanuts comic strip from the 1960s and 1970s, Charlie Brown tries to write to a pen pal using a fountain pen but after several literally " botched " attempts, Charlie switches to using a pencil and referring to his penpal as his " pencil-pal ", with his first letter to his " pencil-pal " explaining the reason for the name change.

Seasonal programming such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Christmas Carol or the Charlie Brown television specials are normally re-shown once ( or occasionally twice ) each year, in the appropriate timeframe.

* Various Peckinpah films are parodied in Jim Reardon's student film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown.

In the first three panels of the strip of December 22, Charlie Brown and Linus are sitting on a porch step, looking glum.

In the last panel, Charlie Brown cries to the heavens, " Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?

This time, Charlie Brown cries, " Or why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just two feet higher?

He associated himself with Delta blues musicians Charlie Patton and Willie Brown, often acting as a sideman.

He then moved to Lula, Mississippi, where he first met Charlie Patton and Willie Brown ( around this same time, he also met Robert Johnson ).

Wide receiver Charlie Brown then added an insurance touchdown with his 6-yard scoring reception.

The main weapons in the passing game were wide receivers Charlie Brown ( 32 receptions, 690 yards, and 8 touchdowns ) and Art Monk ( 35 receptions, 447 yards, and 1 touchdown ).

Washington's main deep threats were wide receivers Charlie Brown ( 78 receptions, 1, 225 yards, and 8 touchdowns ) and Art Monk ( 47 receptions, 746 yards, and 5 touchdowns ), with the latter fully healthy after the previous year's injury that caused him to miss the entire postseason.

Then, Theismann completed a 23-yard pass to receiver Charlie Brown to the Raiders ' 47-yard line.

Less than two weeks before the game was aired, NBC had shown a Peanuts special, You're In the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, in which the character Melody-Melody wins the Punt, Pass & Kick contest wearing a Dallas Cowboys uniform.

Coupled with powerful batters like Juan González, Rubén Sierra, Julio Franco, and Rafael Palmeiro and a pitching staff that also included Charlie Hough, Bobby Witt, Kevin Brown, and Kenny Rogers, fans held really high expectations for the Rangers upcoming season.

In 2007, Warner Bros. added the Peanuts / Charlie Brown library to its collection ( this includes all the television specials and series outside of the theatrical library, which continues to be owned by CBS and Paramount through Peanuts Worldwide, LCC, licensor and owner of the Peanuts material ).

** Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time Magazine.

* December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition.

One of the most notable examples is the episode " The Mayflower voyagers " of the 1988 mini-series This is America, Charlie Brown, which ABC has often aired on Thanksgiving Day ( except in 2006 and 2007 ) along with A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

* 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player ( d. 1983 )

* 1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player ( d. 1993 )

* 1965 – Charlie Hayes, American baseball player

* 1983 – Charlie Morton, American baseball player

* 1956 – Charlie Reliford, American baseball umpire

* 1983 – Charlie Haeger, American baseball player

** Charlie Lau, American baseball player ( b. 1933 )

* January 21 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player ( b. 1903 )

* May 11 – Charlie Gehringer, baseball player ( d. 1993 )

* Charlie Jones ( infielder ) ( 1861 – 1922 ), baseball infielder

* Charlie Jones ( outfielder ) ( 1876 – 1947 ), baseball outfielder

* Charlie Manuel, American and Japanese baseball player and World Series champion manager of the Philadelphia Phillies

* Charlie Peete, baseball player

* Charlie Greene ( baseball ), former Major League Baseball backup catcher

Charlie Gehringer, the baseball Hall of Famer, was from Fowlerville.

* Charlie Maxwell (" Old Paw Paw "), a former Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox baseball player.

* Charlie Berry ( 1860 – 1940 ), former professional baseball player, Union Association, and father of Charlie Berry.

* Charlie Berry ( 1902 – 72 ), former professional baseball and umpire, Major League Baseball.

* Charlie Hayes, former professional baseball player

Charlie Metro, major league baseball player / manager

* Charles C. " Charlie " Robertson: A 1915 Nocona High School graduate, Mr. Robertson went on to play major league baseball with the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns, and Boston Braves.

It was with the White Sox that Charlie Robertson pitched one of only 17 perfect games ever recorded in American major league baseball on April 30, 1922.

* Charlie Manuel, MLB baseball manager

* Charlie Grimm-major league baseball player and manager