Snoopy

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Snoopy was Charlie Brown's beagle in the classic comic strip Peanuts. The dog played shortstop on the gang's hapless team, but was also an offensive force. In the last game of 1973, Snoopy was one home run away from breaking Babe Ruth's career record before Hank Aaron, but Charlie Brown was picked off at first base, ending the season.

Snoopy also won Rookie of the Year one season, which caused other teams to notice his skills. He was almost traded to Peppermint Patty's team twice, once for "five good players" (who scotched the deal when they announced they'd rather give up baseball than play for Charlie Brown), and once for Marcie (that trade was cancelled after Snoopy turned up with a broken leg).

Unfortunately, Snoopy was also at the center of the biggest scandal (and best storyline) in Peanuts baseball history, when Charlie Brown's team had to forfeit its first (and only) win because Snoopy bet Rerun a nickel on the game - against his own team. Historians differ as to whether Charlie Brown's miserly and tyrannical ownership of the team, or Snoopy's own moral and ethical failings, were the primary cause of the scandal.

Away from baseball, Snoopy has led many lives, most famously that of a World War I flying ace who dueled with Germany's Baron Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the "Red Baron". His doghouse is a technological marvel: Not only can he sleep on the pointed top without falling off, but it is apparently much larger on the inside than it appears from the outside, containing a full wine cellar, art gallery and pool table. (Some have speculated the house uses technology similar to that employed by Doctor Who's TARDIS.) The house burned down in the 1960s, destroying Snoopy's priceless Van Gogh; the house was rebuilt, with the Van Gogh replaced by an Andrew Wyeth.

Some Primates have called Snoopy the Derek Jeter of comic book characters. Others contend that that title belongs to Garfield, and that Snoopy is the Alex Rodriguez of comic book characters. Other insist that Garfield is more like the Mo Vaughn of comics - overweight and unproductive in recent years.