{"id":32418,"date":"2019-12-19T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32418"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:16:06","slug":"starring-snoopy-a-world-series-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32418","title":{"rendered":"Starring Snoopy, a World Series T-Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

After writing on Tuesday about an unlicensed Monty Python\/Beatles t-shirt<\/a> that amused me, yesterday saw a package stuffed in my mailbox — an unlicensed Washington Nationals World Series t-shirt.<\/p>\n

After the Nationals won the World Series, my Facebook feed was filled with ads for unofficial Nats World Series merchandise. Especially unofficial t-shirts. I bought an unofficial t-shirt at the World Series parade<\/a>, and nothing Facebook showed me was appealing.<\/p>\n

Then, one day, the unofficial World Series t-shirts started to include Peanuts<\/i> characters. Some didn’t make any sense, like one of Snoopy with the World Series trophy, standing by his doghouse, decorated for Christmas, in the snow.<\/p>\n

Then I saw this one.<\/p>\n

\"Peanuts<\/p>\n

How could I say no to this? Snoopy, driving an old school Volkswagen Beetle convertible, with the World Series trophy?<\/p>\n

Unlike the unofficial Nationals\/Peanuts<\/i> shirt<\/a> I bought last year, I didn’t dither for three days.<\/p>\n

And, yesterday, it arrived. After a terrifying trip home from work — snow squalls and icy, untreated roads — it was in my mailbox.<\/p>\n

It looks nice. I’ll wear it rarely, if at all. For right now, it’s in a tote with my out-of-circulation t-shirts, like the unofficial shirt from last year. That’s a nice shirt and I like wearing it, but after a few washes the print began to degrade, so I squirreled it away.<\/p>\n

If I could have bought an official version of this shirt, or something like it, I would have. There are official MLB\/Star Wars<\/i> shirts and official MLB\/Marvel Comics shirts, even though neither Star Wars<\/i> nor Marvel have a thing to do with baseball. Peanuts<\/i>, on the other hand, is chock full of baseball, and there’s no official MLB\/Peanuts merchandise. That’s a merchandising lapse, and one I hope to see rectified some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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